Tuesday, January 29, 2013

What you cannot imagine; I shall be that


"I died from minerality and became vegetable;
And From vegetativeness I died and became animal.
I died from animality and became man.
Then why fear disappearance through death?
Next time I shall die
Bringing forth wings and feathers like angels;
After that, soaring higher than angels -
What you cannot imagine;
I shall be that."

Rumi (Mathnawi III, 1284-1288)

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