Oh sun, thou takest leave of this rose garden (the earth) in order to illumine (the region) below the earth;
(But) the Sun of Divine knowledge has no motion: its place of rising is naught but the spirit and the intellect;
Especially the perfect Sun which is of yonder (world of Reality): day and night its action is (giving) illumination.
If thou art an Alexander, come to the Sun’s rising-place; after that, wheresoever thou goest, thou art possessed of goodly splendour.
After that, wheresoever thou goest, ’twill become the place of sunrise: (all) the places of sunrise will be in love with thy place of sunset.
Thy bat-like senses are running toward the sunset; thy pearl-scattering senses are faring toward the sunrise.
The way of the (physical) sense-perception is the way of asses, O rider: have shame, O thou that art jostling (vying) with asses!
Besides these five (physical) senses there are five (spiritual) senses: those (latter) are like red gold, while these (physical) senses are like copper.
In the bazaar where the buyers are expert, how should they buy the copper sense (as though it were) the sense of gold?
The bodily sense is eating the food of darkness; the spiritual sense is feeding from a Sun.
O thou that hast borne the baggage of thy senses to the Unseen, put forth thy hand, like Moses, from thy bosom.
Oh thou whose attributes are (those of) the Sun of Divine knowledge, while the sun in heaven is confined to a single attribute,
Now thou becomes the Sun, and now the Sea; now the mountain of Qaf, and now the Anqa.
In thy essence thou art neither this nor that, O thou that art greater than (all) imaginations and more than (all) more!
Mathnawi, Book II (Nicholson translation)
The Fat Monk 