ABSTRACT
The physical world has no two things alike. Every comparison is awkwardly rough … Say the body is like this lamp. It has to have a wick and oil. Sleep and food. If it doesn’t get those, it will die, and it’s always burning those up, trying to die. But where is the sun in this comparison? It rises, and the lamp’s light mixes with the day. Oneness, which is the reality, cannot be understood with lamp and sun images. The blurring of a plural into a unity is wrong. (Rumi, quoted in Barks, 1995, p. 177)
