Your real self is higher than 'you' and 'me.'

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Now ye know not the truth and nature of the 'Truth,' But at the last ye will cry, 'That was the "Truth."' The Truth is yourself, but not your mere bodily self, Your real self is higher than 'you' and 'me.' This visible 'you' which you fancy to be yourself Is limited in place, the real 'you' is not limited.

Source Masnavi, Book VI, Story IX, §5 · 📖 Read the full passage

✨ To meditate on today

According to Rumi, your real self is not only this visible “me”, limited in place: it is vaster than the “you” and the “me” that separate beings, and one day you will recognize: “That was the Truth.” Today, when you feel small, hurt or separated from others, remember that you are more than this image of yourself, and look at the other as someone who shares that same deep being.

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