“There is a certain cloud,
impregnated with a
thousand lightnings.
There is my body,
in it an ocean formed of his glory,
all the creation,
all the universes,
all the galaxies,
are lost in it.”

—  Rumi

Hush Don't Say Anything to God (1999)

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Iranian poet 1207–1273

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