“Quit acting like a wolf, and feel
the shepherd's love filling you.”
"A Community of the Spirit" in Ch. 1 : The Tavern, p. 2
Disputed, The Essential Rumi (1995)
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Rumi 148
Iranian poet 1207–1273Related quotes

“There is no greater love than the love the wolf feels for the lamb-it-doesn’t-eat.”
Source: Stigmata: Escaping Texts

“So in the dark of night a dense crowd of shepherds wards off a wolf from the steer he has caught.”
Sic densa lupum jam nocte sub atra
arcet ab apprenso pastorum turba juvenco.
Source: Thebaid, Book VIII, Line 691

referring to the Anglican Primate of South Africa, Archibishop Winston Njongonkulu Ndungane of Cape Town

“Because for you, quitting smoking would be like killing someone you love.”
Living to Tell the Tale (2002)

No. 163: On his discovery of Finnish language, in a letter to W. H. Auden (1955)
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (1981)