from
Rumi: Daylight A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance
translated from the Mathnawi of Jelaluddin Rumi
by Camille and Kabir Helminski
Threshold Books


Everyone is so afraid of death,
but the real sufis just laugh:
nothing tyrannizes their hearts.
What strikes the oyster shell doesn’t damage the pearl.




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