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“The dog of the ego has bared its teeth and nipped the spirit’s foot. Since your ego predominates you are a beast. Your properties are determined by that which predominates, oh self-worshipper! This ego…it drinks down the seven seas. It makes a morsel out of a world and gulps it down. Its belly keeps shouting, ‘Is there any more?’ This ego will swallow down the seeds of your worldly designs, and once you have planted them, they will surely grow.” (Rumi)