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He says, "There’s nothing left of me.
I’m like a ruby held up to the sunrise.
Is it still a stone, or a world
made of redness? It has no resistance
to sunlight."
--
Rumi, as translated in Head and Heart : A Personal Exploration of Science and the Sacred (2002) by Victor Mansfield

 

Al-Hallaj

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