Then he told me: Farness is known by nearness And nearness through ecstasy! Then he told me: The lowest rung on the scale of knowing nearness Is that in all things You glimpse some trace of my gaze. Then he told me: The nearness you know is farness, The farness you know is distance But I am both near and far away, for me there is no distance. Then he told me: You see yourself Yet I’m nearer to you than your own vision of yourself That’s what farness really is.