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Branches of trees dancing like fair damsels, Leaves clapping hands like singers. These glories are a mirror shining through a veil; If the mirror were unveiled, how would it be? I tell not one in a thousand of them, Because every ear is stopped with doubt.
Source Masnavi, Book IV, Story VIII, §3 · 📖 Read the full passage
✨ To meditate on today
According to Rumi, the dance of the branches and the clapping of the leaves are glories that reflect, through a veil, a greater beauty, that of God; if the veil fell, what would we see? Today, watch a tree or a plant moving in the wind for a minute, and let it remind you of the Beauty hidden behind it.
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