Bismillah

Masnavi I, 409-10


The more awake one is to the material world,
the more one is asleep to spirit.
When our soul is asleep to God,
other wakefulness closes the door of Divine grace.

Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
From Persian transliteration by Yahyá Monastra
"Rumi: Daylight", Threshold Books, 1994


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