They said, “He is not to be found, we too have searched.”

He answered, “He who is not to be found is my desire.”

—Jalal ad-Din Rumi, Masnavi-i Ma’navi

All Faith is false, all Faith is true:

Truth is the shattered mirror strown

in myriad bits; while each believes

his little bit the whole to own.

—Sir Richard Francis Burton,
The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi