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Sunlight fell upon the wall;

the wall received a borrowed splendor.

Why set your heart on a piece of earth,

O simple one? Seek out the source

which shines forever.

 

- Rumi

 

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This quotation is from the Jalal al-Din Rumi’s

Mathnawi: II:708-709

 

Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski

" Rumi: Daylight "

Threshold Books, 1994

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