I am a drop of water
that thinks it is the ocean
until it falls.
What am I?

Q: I am a drop of water that thinks it is the ocean until it falls. What am I?

The ego.. A whole Sufi-Vedantic tradition compressed into one image. The drop is real; the ocean is real; the confusion between them is the human condition.

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The ego. — A whole Sufi-Vedantic tradition compressed into one image. The drop is real; the ocean is real; the confusion between them is the human condition.