In the early morning,
A lover asked her beloved,
"Do you love me more than yourself?"
"More than myself?
For sure I have no self anymore
--I am you already.
The 'I' has gone, the 'you' has come about.
Even my identity is gone.
The answer is taken for granted.
'You and I' has no meaning.
The 'I' has vanished
like a drop in an ocean of honey."
-- from the Masnavi collection of Rumi
