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About Omar KhayyamTimeline (11th Century) |
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[32] There was a Door to which I found no Key:
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There was a Door to which I found no Key:
There was a Veil through which I could not see: Some little Talk awhile of Me and Thee There seemed -- and then no more of Thee and Me.
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Another powerful quatrain from the Sufi classic the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
The door that has no key and the veil through which one cannot see is the final barrier that separates us from the Divine Beloved. That barrier is dualism itself. At first there is the dualistic perception of "Me and Thee," of the separate identities of the lover and Beloved, and then suddenly that final barrier falls away. The barrier is passed, not through some action or "key," but through the instantaneous recognition that the barrier does not, in truth, exist at all. You are stunned to discover that there is no separation (only the ego identity's charade of a separation). And then -- "no more of Thee and Me," only Divine Presence!
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