you will not care to be small again...

Once you have given up your limited self willingly to the Unlimited,
you will rejoice so much in that consciousness that you will not care
to be small again.

Bowl of Saki, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:

If you ask someone to say where he is, he will point at his arm, his
hand, his body. He knows little beyond that. There are many who if
asked, 'But where do you think you are in your body?' will say, 'In
my brain.' They limit themselves to that small physical region which
is called body, thus making themselves much smaller than they really
are. The truth is that man is one individual with two aspects, just
like one line with two ends. If you look at the ends, it is two. If
you look at the line, it is one. One end of the line is limited, the
other end of the line is unlimited. One end is man, the other end is
God. Man forgets that end, and knows only the end of which he is
conscious. And it is the consciousness of limitation which makes him
more limited. Otherwise he would have far greater means of
approaching the Unlimited which is within himself, which is only the
other end of the same line, the line which he calls, or which he
considers to be, himself. And when a mystic speaks of self-knowledge
this does not mean knowing how old one is or how good one is or how
bad, or how right or how wrong. It means knowing the other part of
one's being, that deeper, subtler aspect. It is upon the knowledge of
that being that the fulfillment of life depends.

When a man has a ragged coat he says, 'I am poor'. In reality his
coat is poor, not he. What this capacity or accommodation contains is
that which becomes his knowledge, his realization, and it is that
which limits him. It forms that limitation which is the tragedy of
every soul. Now, this capacity may be filled with self, or it may be
filled with God. There is only room for one. Either we live with our
limitation, or we let God reign there in His unlimited Being.