float like foam on the ocean of meaning--brought into being by the motion of true meaning, but unstable, ephemeral, opaque and obscuring. Yet we know that a clear reality and meaning is hidden beneath the forms:Two different things: The sea's eye and its foam
Forget foam! See with the eye of the sea!
All surging of that foam comes from the sea –
How strange, you look to foam and see no sea!
Masnavi 3:1270-71
from The Guardian: Rumi's Masnavi, part 2: Under the surface
also The Guardian: Rumi's Masnavi, part 1: World figure or new age fad?
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