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Sunlight...

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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