One more poem from Rumi....

THE ONE TRUE LIGHT

The lamps are different, but the Light is the same: it comes from Beyond.
If thou keep looking at the lamp, thou are lost: for thence arises the appearance of number and plurality.
Fix thy gaze upon the Light, and thou art delivered from the dualism inherent in the finite body.
O though who art the kernel of Existence, the disagreement between Moslem, Zoroastrian, and Jew depends on the standpoint.

Some Hindus brought an elephant, which they exhibited in a dark shed.
As seeing it with the eye was impossible, every one felt it with the palm of his hand.
The hand of one fell on its trunk: he said, "This animal is like a waterpipe.
Another touched its ear: to him the creature seemed like a fan.
Another handled its leg and described the elephant as having the shape of a pillar.
Another stroked its back, "Truly," said he, "this elephant resembles a throne."
Had each of them held a lighted candle, there would have been no contradiction in their words.