Cling to your real self, quit this dual self.

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This outward 'you' is foreign to your real ' you;' Cling to your real self, quit this dual self. Your last self attains to your first self Only through your attending earnestly to that union.

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

✨ To meditate on today

According to Rumi, the outward “you”, the one of appearances and roles, is foreign to your real self; by attending earnestly to that union, you can rejoin your first and true self. Today, take three moments to ask yourself: “Is it my real self acting, or only my image?” and choose, at least once, to act from what is truest in you.

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