“This dance is the joy of existence. I am filled with you.
Skin, blood, bone, brain, and soul.
There's no room for lack of trust, or trust.
Nothing in this existence but that existence.”

—  Rumi

"We Three" Ch. 11 : Union
The Essential Rumi (1995)

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Iranian poet 1207–1273

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