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If wheat were not valued as sweet and good for food,
The cheat who shows wheat and sells barley would make no profit.
Say not then that all these creeds are false
The false ones ensnare hearts by the scent of truth.
Say not that they are all erroneous fancies
There is no fancy in the universe without some truth.
In the crowd of rag-wearers there is one faqir,
Search well and find out that true one.

— Rumi Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

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Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune:
Every success depends upon focusing the heart.

The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.

The branch might seem like the fruit's origin:
In fact, the branch exists because of the fruit.

If you wish to shine like day, burn up the night of self-existence. Dissolve in the Being who is everything.

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.

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