158 actas del ii congreso internacional de literatura mística St. Theresa of Avila wrote in Meditations on the Song of Songs 6:3: “Let… [us] die in this paradise of delights”. Aspire then to ‘die before death’. Yunus Emre—a Turkish poet and Sufi mystic who lived from 1238-1320—said: Hakikat bir denizdür, şeriat anun gemisi, Çoklar gemiden çıkup denize dalmadılar [Truth is the sea, and ‘dogma’ is but the ship; most men do not plunge themselves into that sea].
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