Looking for your own face Your face is neither infinite nor ephemeral. You can never see your own face, only a reflection, not the face itself. So you sigh in front of mirrors and cloud the surface. It’s better to keep your breath cold. Hold it, like a diver does in the ocean. One slight movement, the mirror-image goes. Don’t be dead or asleep or awake. Don’t be anything. What you most want, what you travel around wishing to find, lose yourself as lovers lose themselves, and you’ll be that. Poem by Attar - probably the most well-known name among the Sufi poets. Even may have been the inspiration for Shams, Rumi and many others to follow in his footsteps......