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What worlds the principle of Reason embraces! How broad is this ocean of Reason! Yea, the Reason of man is a boundless ocean. O son, that ocean requires, as it were, a diver. On this fair ocean our human forms Float about, like bowls on the surface of water; Yea like cups on the surface, till they are filled; And when filled, these cups sink into the water.
Source Masnavi, Book I, Story V, §9 · 📖 Read the full passage
✨ To meditate on today
According to Rumi, Reason, that is, the universal intelligence that comes from God, is a boundless ocean, and our human forms are like cups floating on its surface until they are filled, and then they sink into it. Today, take a moment to go deeper into a single luminous thought instead of skimming a hundred.
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