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> [You are not your body; you are the eye. When you see the spirit, you are free of the body. A human being is an eye – the rest is just flesh and bones. Whatever your eye sees, you are that.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/you-are-not-your-body-you-are-the-eye-when-you-see-the-spirit-you-are/)

[Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7df/rumi-56_body_you-are-not-your-body-you-are-the-eye-wh_1734405.jpg)

> [Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/caspar-david-friedrich/close-your-bodily-eye-that-you-may-see-your-picture-first-with-the/)

[Caspar David Friedrich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/caspar-david-friedrich/)

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