pearl..............................

 With students, perhaps even Rumi, taking notes, he explained, "You are your own pearl . . . If you don't know anything else, but know yourself, then you are a scholar and a mystic.  If you don't know yourself, then all the science and knowledge that you possess is useless."

-Brad Gooch, as excerpted from Rumi's Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love