The sufi opens his hands to the universe
and gives away each instant, free.
Unlike someone who begs on the street to survive,
a dervish begs to give you his life.
Jalaluddin Rumi
in John Moyne and Coleman Barks
Open Secret: Versions of Rumi, 686
Putney, VT: Threshold Books, 1984, p. 13
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