I thought of You so often,
I completely became You.
Little by little, You drew near,
And slowly but surely, 'I' passed away."
Javad Nurbakhsh
_In the Tavern of Ruins_
in M. I. Waley
_Sufism: The Alchemy of the Heart_
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1991 (1931), p. 24
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