Archive for July 29th, 2008

I Myself am Heav’n and Hell :: Omar Khayyam

Posted in Religion on 07/29/2008 06:15 am by rahuldewan

I found this couplet from Omar Khayyam particularly beautiful and in line with mysticism in nearly all the world’s religions. To create a better world, and find a new spirituality for us, this is a better pursuit rather as opposed to fighting on theology, which is always open to interpretation.

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I sent my Soul through the Invisible,
Some letter of that After-life to spell:
And by and by my Soul return’d to me,
And answer’d “I Myself am Heav’n and Hell :”

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