“Lovers think they are looking for each other,
but there is only one search: wandering
This world is wandering that, both inside one
transparent sky. In here
there is no dogma and no heresy.”

—  Rumi

Source: The Essential Rumi (1995), Ch. 19 : Jesus Poems, p. 205

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