Work on your stony qualities and become resplendent like the ruby. Practice self-denial and accept difficulty. Always see infinite life in letting the self die. Your stoniness will decrease; your ruby nature will grow. The signs of self-existence will leave your body, and ecstasy will take you over.
RumiWhen you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame, abandoned by a fantasy. โฆPeople fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they are really tearing out their wings for the sake of an illusion.
Rumi