“Don't be like axe and don't offend anyone
Don't be useless like a plane
Just be like a saw in your life
Do something for yourself and something for others”

— Sheikh Ahmad-e Jami

Nafahat al-Uns (Breaths of Fellowship)

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Persian sufi and poet 1048–1141

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