Once they asked Shibli:
—Who sent you on the Path?
Shibli replied:
- Dog. One day I saw a dog, almost dying of thirst, standing at the edge of the water. Every time he bent down, he saw his own reflection, got scared and jumped back because he thought there was another dog there. But then the need became such that he cast aside fear and jumped into the water, and the reflection disappeared. The dog found that the obstacle that was himself, the barrier between him and what he was looking for, had disappeared. In the same way, my own obstacle disappeared.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru