"I will no longer perceive the universe, I will perceive the Zahir. According to Idealist doctrine the verbs 'to live' and 'to dream' are rigorously synonymous; as for me, thousands of appearances will become one; a very complex dream into a simple one. Others will dream that I am mad, while I dream of the Zahir. When every person on earth thinks, day and night, of the Zahir, which will be dream and which reality, the earth or the Zahir?"