' Becoming the Sun '...

"Think of the rays of the sun shining into houses.

They are rays of the sun, and they are light, but they are attached to the sun and not the houses.

When the sun sets, their light no more remains.

"What we have to do, then, is become the Sun itself,

so all fear of separation can forever be ended."



-Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
Letters
in Andrew Harvey
Teachings of Rumi
Boston: Shambahala, 1999, p. 22