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When duality came into being, it found thee in unity. When duality disappeared, it found thee in unity. Lose thyself in unity, and thou shalt be absorbed therein. To act otherwise is to be separated from it.
Source Mantic uttaïr, The lover who pulls his beloved from the water · 📖 Read the full passage
✨ To meditate on today
According to Attar, a Persian Sufi poet, who ends in this way the story of a lover who throws himself into the water to save his beloved because he no longer feels separate from her, true love erases the border between “you” and “me” and makes us live in unity. Today, with someone you love, listen to them while forgetting your own point of view for a moment, as if their joy and their sorrow were yours.
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