“Disputational knowing wants customers.
It has no soul.”

—  Rumi

"The Sheikh who played with the Children" in Ch. 4 : Spring Giddiness, p. 46
Disputed, The Essential Rumi (1995)

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Iranian poet 1207–1273

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