' I Am Within '...

“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