“Anyone in whom the troublemaking self has died,
sun and cloud obey.
If you wish to shine like day,
burn up the night of self-existence.
Dissolve in the Being who is everything.”

—  Rumi

Rumi Daylight (1990)

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Iranian poet 1207–1273

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