“Even if they are not closer to God,” I replied, unconvinced, “who will tell them that? Will you?” But the dervish shook his head. “No, that’s not the way the system works. It is you who needs to tell it to them.” “Do you think they would listen to me? Those men hate me.” “They will listen,” he said determinedly. “Because there is no such thing as ‘them,’ just as there is no ‘I.’ All you need to do is keep in mind how everything and everyone in this universe is interconnected. We are not hundreds and thousands of different beings. We are all One.”
