He will give you thousands of existences, one after another, the succeeding ones better than the former.

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On the day that you entered upon existence, You were first fire, or earth, or air. If you had continued in that, your original state, How could you have arrived at this dignity of humanity? But through change your first existence remained not In lieu thereof God gave you a better existence In like manner He will give you thousands of existences, One after another, the succeeding ones better than the former.

Source Masnavi, Book V, Story III, §6 · 📖 Read the full passage

✨ To meditate on today

According to Rumi, the human being has passed through many states (the elements, the plant, the animal) before reaching human dignity, and at each change God gave him a better existence; He will continue in this way, stage after stage, up to Himself. Today, facing a change that worries you, remember a past change that made you grow, and welcome this one with the same trust.

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