Maulana Jalal Uddin Rumi (1207-1273) Every fantasy..(Post 38)

Every fantasy from Masnavi of Rumi.

Every fantasy devours another fantasy:
one thought feeds on another.
You can't be delivered(set free( from fantasy
or fall asleep to escape from it altogether.
Your thoughts are like hornets, and your sleep is like the water
in which you are plunged: when you awake, the hornets return,
and many hornet-like fantasies fly in
and draw you now this way and then that way.
This mental fantasy is the least of the devourers:

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