“Quit acting like a wolf, and feel
the shepherd's love filling you.”

—  Rumi

"A Community of the Spirit" in Ch. 1 : The Tavern, p. 2
Disputed, The Essential Rumi (1995)

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Iranian poet 1207–1273

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