Your true treasure is hidden under a false one, just as butter is hidden within the substance of milk.

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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. Stir up your milk assiduously with knowledge, So that what is hidden in it may be disclosed; Because this mortal is the guide to immortality, As the cries of revellers indicate the cup-bearer.

Source Masnavi, Book IV, Story VII, §5 · 📖 Read the full passage

✨ To meditate on today

According to Rumi, your true treasure, the soul God has placed in you, is hidden in your everyday life like butter in milk: it appears when one “churns” patiently, through knowledge and attention. Today, choose an ordinary activity (walking, cooking, working) and do it slowly, looking for what it can reveal of the good and luminous in you.

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