Freedom From The Self Quotes

“When mystics proudly announce that they 'revel in the delights of desire (havas),' their apparently sybarite sentiment takes as its transcendental reference point the 'grand desire' of the adept to realize freedom from selfhood, as Rumi states:

   There lies in no man's head
      Such desire as lies in mine;
   The desire I sense is such that
      I'm bereft of all ken of self.”
― Hossein Elahi Ghomshei PhD, Beauty, Love, and Wisdom in Persian Poetry: From Attar to Rumi, Shabistari and Hafiz