Nothingness...

If you are eager to be nothing,

before you know who you are.

you rob yourself of your true being..

Until you understand nothingness,

you will never know true Faith.


- Rumi

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"Rumi - Whispers of the Beloved"
Selected and translated by
Azima Melita Kolin and Maryam Mafi
Thorsons, London 1999