Abolish these categories of pain(or is it love) Let it all be one pain Pain swallows itself, dies like a star.

Alice Notley
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The poet Rumi was a Muslim mystic, poet, and an Islamic theologian. He found that his spiritual quest was not complete until he stepped out of the world of dualities. He included love and hate, pleasure and pain, beauty and ugliness among the many other categories that he wanted to leave behind. His poem above is about the power of this one pain to swallow up all other pains.

Source: Disobedience

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