“My head is bursting
with the joy of the unknown.
My heart is expanding a thousand fold.
Every cell,
taking wings,
flies about the world.
All seek separately
the many faces of my Beloved.”

—  Rumi

Hush Don't Say Anything to God (1999)

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Iranian poet 1207–1273

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