Quote by Farid ud-Din Attar: “The heart is an ocean, and every wave is a world.”

Human inner life is not shallow or simple — it contains multitudes. Each feeling, memory, or desire that moves through you is its own complete reality, as vast and complex as any world. The inner life is as infinite as the sea.

Attar composed his mystical poetry in Nishapur, a city that had been a major centre of Islamic learning and culture before being devastated by the Mongol invasions. His explorations of the infinite inner world of the soul provided a kind of consolation for a civilisation experiencing catastrophic external destruction.

Persian Sufi poet and mystic born around 1145 in Nishapur, whose masterpiece The Conference of the Birds is an extended allegory of the soul's journey toward God. He is considered one of the foundational figures of Persian mystical poetry and a major influence on Rumi.