' The Voice Spoke '...

There came one and knocked at the door of the Beloved.

And a voice answered and said, 'Who is there?'

The lover replied, 'It is I.'

'Go hence,' returned the voice;

'there is no room within for thee and me.'

Then came the lover a second time and knocked and again the voice demanded,

'Who is there?'

He answered, 'It is thou.'

'Enter,' said the voice, 'for I am within.


-Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Way of the Sufi