Striping the ego...

If you can’t smell the fragrance
don’t come into the garden of Love.

If you are unwilling to undress
don’t enter into the stream of Truth.

Stay where you are, don’t come our way.


- Rumi

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Rumi: Hidden Music
Translated by Azima Melita Kolin
and Maryam Mafi
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2001