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The Pleasure Principle, by René Magritte (1937)

The light is in the spirit, not in the flesh

The heat is in the fire, not the iron sheet
Dervishhood is in the head, not in the crown
Whatever you seek, seek in yourself,
Not in Jerusalem, Mecca, or the Hajj.*

*A quatrain of the Turkish Sufi saint Hajji Bektash.
 

Don't look elsewhere, seek inside you, find in you.

— Niyazi Misri (Turkish Sufi poet)