I died to the inorganic state and became endowed with growth, and then I died to vegetable growth and attained to the animal.I died from the animality and became Adam; why, then, should I fear? When have I become less by dying?At the next remove, I shall die to man, that I may soar and lift my head amongst the angels.And I must escape even from the state of the angel;everything is perishing except His Face.
-Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi
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