Don't abide in borrowed certainty

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If your knowledge of fire has been turned

to certainty by words alone,

then seek to be cooked by the fire itself.

Don¹t abide in borrowed certainty.

There is no real certainty until you burn;

if you wish for this, sit down in the fire.

 

- Rumi

 

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From Jalal al-Din Rumi¹s Mathnawi

Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski

" Rumi: Daylight "

Threshold Books, 1994