a garment for Consciousness...

When a man is busy in earnest,

he is unconscious of his pain.

I mention this insensibility to pain
so you may know how much the body
resembles a garment.

Go, seek the one who wears it;

don't kiss a piece of cloth.



- Rumi

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Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"
Threshold Books, 1996