The Eye that Sees Itself

 I ask you, oh Friend, how does the eye see itself?

Of course, the eye is born for seeing, and seeing is filled with a desire for knowing; but how can the eye truly know itself, if all it sees is 'everything else' but itself; when what is constantly reflected upon its tender surface, is nothing but an image of 'otherness' - of seer and seen?

To see itself, it must find a Truth mirror upon which to gaze, and by some powerful allure, turn away from 'two'.

If you are fortunate enough to find such a mirror, that shines so brilliantly with the light of One; then perhaps you will feel some intangible nostalgia, to draw your eye to its own reflection. 

Upon this reflection, let your eye be focused, your gaze persistent and your remembering constant; allow the unifying power of sight to fill you with the magic of surrender - then your remembering will transform into becoming, and becoming into the light of true knowing.

Just as Rumi remembered Shems with all his heart, and was lost in that Sun of Truth; so too, in this brilliant reflection will your eyes be blinded to 'another' and lost in Oneness.  

The eye sees itself when it loses itself in the reflection of its own Unity, then everything it sees is nothing but itself.

The eye is the light of thy being. If thine eye be single, thy whole being shall be full of light. 

Jesus

The Mirror (from The Secret Rose Garden

Your eye has not strength enough

to gaze at the burning sun,
but you can see its burning light
by watching its reflection
mirrored in the water.

So the reflection of Absolute Being
can be viewed in the mirror of Not-Being,
for nonexistence, being opposite Reality,
instantly catches its reflection.

Know the world from end to end is a mirror;
in each atom a hundred suns are concealed.
If you pierce the heart of a single drop of water, from it will flow a hundred clear oceans; if you look intently at each speck of dust, in it you will see a thousand beings.
A gnat in its limbs is like an elephant;
in name a drop of water resembles the Nile.
In the heart of a barleycorn is stored a hundred harvests.
Within a millet-seed a world exists.
In an insects wing is an ocean of life.

A heaven is concealed in the pupil of an eye. The core at the center of the heart is small, yet the Lord of both worlds will enter there.

by Shabistari

We do not see things as they are; we see them as we are. Oh Allah, show me the reality of all things as it (truly) is.

Dua of Prophet Muhammed PBUH