You must climb to the summit step by step.

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The mentor says, O raw hastener, through patient waiting, You must climb to the summit step by step. Boil your pot by degrees and in a masterly way; Food boiled in mad haste is spoiled. Doubtless God could have created the universe By the fiat 'Be!' in one moment of time; Why, then, did He protract His work over six days, Each of which equaled a thousand years, O disciple?

Source Masnavi, Book VI, Story IV, §3 · 📖 Read the full passage

✨ To meditate on today

According to Rumi, the Persian Sufi poet, inner growth happens slowly, in stages: a master reminds his impatient disciple that God Himself, who could create everything with a single word, “Be!”, took six days to shape the world. Today, choose one thing you would like to see change quickly in you or around you, and take only today’s small step, with patience and without judging yourself.

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