Wisdom: The egoism of ‘I’

O man, the egoism of ‘I’ hurts the self
The haughtiness of ‘mine’ torments you.
If both the ‘mine’ and ‘yours’ go away, we will dwell in the
wide open space in which all worlds are our world and all lives
are our life. We will be in the state of ill-Allahu, the all-pervasive
omnipresence.

Muhaiyaddeen, M.R. Bawa. The Golden Words of a Sufi Sheikh. Philadelphia:Fellowship Press, 1981,2006