"Read ‘I was a hidden treasure and desired to be known;’ Hide not the hidden treasure but disclose it; Your true treasure is hidden under a false one, Just as butter is hidden within the substance of milk, The false one is this transitory body of yours, The true one your divine soul. Long time this milk is exposed to view And the soul’s butter is hidden and of no account."
Rumi

January 1, 1970

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