The saint Shibli one day went to see Nuri; he found him sitting so still in contemplation that not a hair of his body moved.
He asked him, 'From whom did you learn to practice such fixity of contemplation?'
Nuri answered, 'From a cat which I saw waiting at a mouse-hole in an attitude of even greater fixity than this.'
—Ghazali Alchemy of Happiness, #translation C. Field
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