' Speak honestly '...

Vain, boastful talk repels acts of kindness and
tears the branch of mercy from the trunk of the
tree.

Speak honestly or else be silent, and then
behold grace and delight in it.


- Rumi

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Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"
Threshold Books, 1996