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“In love with insanity,
I’m fed up with wisdom and rationality” p17

“Inside those ephemeral rays of reflected light, I felt my self—my ego, my separateness—disintegrate. In its place emerged the beloved. Not up on some cloud or out in some mosque, but under my skin, traversing my veins, hugging my heart […] Such is the terrain of mystics, and for some, the upside of madness” p18

—“when it comes to love, the pen breaks

—“love’s nation of origin is separate from all creeds,
for the lover, the Beloved comprises all religions and nationalities