"Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?"
"Who looks out with my eyes?
What is the soul?
I cannot stop asking.

If I could taste one sip of an answer,
I could break out of this prison for drunks.
I didn't come here of my own accord and
I can't leave that way.

Whoever brought me here
will have to take me home."
A tailor needs a torn garment to practice his expertise. The trunks of a tree must be cut and cut again so they can be used for fine carpentry.
Your doctor must have a broken leg to doctor.

Your defects are the ways that glory get manifested.

Whomever sees clearly what's diseased in himself begins to gallop on the way.
The Rumi Journal
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