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.

Don't 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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Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski

" Rumi: Daylight "

Threshold Books, 1994

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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