We made from water every living thing.

{Quran, 21:30}

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This thirst in our souls is the attraction of Water; we belong to It and It belongs to us.

Mawlana Rumi

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In the sea there are countless gains, but if you desire safety, it is on the shore.

Sa'di, Gulistan

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The beginning of love is search, but the end is rest : water flows in the river-bed, but when it reaches the ocean it ceases to flow and changes its taste, so that those who desire water avoid it, but those who desire pearls devote themselves to death and fasten the plummet of search to their feet and plunge headlong into the sea, that they may either gain the hidden pearl or lose their dear lives.

Shaykh al-Hujwiri, Kashf al-Mahjub

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I do not cease swimming in the seas of love, rising with the wave, then descending; now the wave sustains me, and then I sink beneath it; love bears me away where there is no longer any shore.

Mansur al-Hallaj, Diwan al-Hallaj

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