Know the true definition of yourself

[Guest guest]

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Suppose you know the definitions of all substances

and their derivatives,

what good is this to you?

Know the true definition of yourself.

That is indispensable.

Then, when you know your own definition, flee from it,

that you may attain to the One who cannot be defined,

O sifter of the dust.

 

- Rumi

 

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Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski

" Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance "

Threshold Books, 1996