
The Call of Perfection
The rational mind is a denier of Love, though it may pretend to be an intimate. It is clever and knowing, but not empty of itself.
Until your angel has become nothing, it is a devil. In word and deed the rational mind is our friend, but when you come to the case of intimate feeling, it’s worthless. It’s worthless because it hasn’t left its own self existence: it didn’t willingly become nothing.
Most die unwillingly, but the Spirit is perfection, and its call is perfection.
-Jallaludin Rumi