meeting the Lion...

said, "Lord, thou knowest how much i understand." but i said also (for the truth constrained me), "yet i have been seeking Tash all my days."

"Beloved, " said the Glorious One, "unless thy desire had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long and so truly. For all find what they truly seek."

Then He breathed on me and took away the trembling from my limbs and caused me to stand upon my feet. And after that, he said not much, but that we should meet again, and i must go farther up and farther in. then he turned him about and in a storm and flurry of gold and was gone suddenly."

"and since then, O kings and ladies, i have been wandering to find him and my happiness is so great that it even weakens me like a wound...."

"and this is the marvel of marvels, the he called me Beloved, me who am but as a dog..."