FRAGMENT OF MY FAVORITE RUMI POEM

And if you bring a dead heart carried like a coffin on your shoulders, God wills say, "Oh, cheat! Is this a graveyard? Bring the live heart! Bring the live heart!"

If you haven't any knowledge and only opinions, have good opinions about God. This is the way.

If you can only crawl, crawl to Him.

If you cannot pray sinceely, offer your dry, hypocritical agnostic prayer, for God in His mercy accepts bad coin.

If you have a hundred doubts about God, make them into ninety doubts. This is the way.

Oh, Seeker!
Though you have broken your vows a hundred times, come again! Come again!

For God has said, "Though you are on high or in the pit, consider Me, for I am the Way."

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