" the seed has in it the leaf and the flower and the fruit. But the fulfillment of the purpose of that seed is that it is put in the ground, that it is watered, that a seedling springs up and is reared by the sun; it brings forth its flowers and fruits. This is the fulfillment of that seed which already contained in itself the fruit and the flower. "

― Hazrat Inayat Khan , The Way of Illumination (The Sufi Teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan Book 1)