Inspirations
Fragments of poetry, music, philosophy, and literature that have inspired specific works throughout the collection.
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
— Rumi
“I wish it would rain -
wash through the city and carry away its sorrow.”— Ali Panahi
“…Little Sparks in the Grand Design…”
— Benny Rivers (AI generated music)
“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”
— Leonard Cohen
The birds’ search for the Simurgh ultimately becomes a
journey toward discovering themselves.
— Farid ud-Din Attar, The Conference of the Birds (12th-century Sufi allegorical poem)
“From where we broke, we begin to blossom again.”
— Ali Panahi
“I am a bird of the celestial garden, not a creature of this earthly dust.
For a few brief days, they have made a cage from my body.”
— Rumi