Death of self...

"In God's presence two I's cannot be contained.

You say 'I' and He says 'I':

either do you die before Him, or He will die before you, so that duality may not
remain.

But as for God's dying, that is both impossible and inconceivable; for
He is the Living, the Immortal.

So gracious is He, that if it were at all
possible He would die for your sake, so that duality might vanish.

Now since it
is not possible for Him to die, do you die so that He may reveal Himself to you
and so that duality may vanish."


Jalal al-Din Rumi

Discourses of Rumi (Or Fihi Ma Fihi)
translated by A.J. Arberry (1947)