Just as rivers flow from east and west to merge with the one sea, forgetting that they were ever separate rivers, so all beings lose their separateness when they eventually merge into pure Being.
When divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
Likewise the spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words. And he who searches the hearts of men knows the mind of the spirit, because the spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
