this body is only an instrument for the spirit

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All this dying is not the death of the physical form:
this body is only an instrument for the spirit.

There is many a martyred soul that has died to self in this world,
though it goes about like the living.

The animal self has died, though the body, which is its sword, survives:
the sword is still in the hand of that eager warrior.

The sword is the same sword; the person is not the same person,
but this appearance of identity bewilders you.

–Rumi

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Edward Weston 

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