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Know words resemble these bodies, And the meaning resembles the soul. The body's eyes are ever intent on bodies, The soul's eyes on the reasonable soul; Wherefore, in the figures of the words of the Masnavi, The form misleads, but the inner meaning guides.
Source Masnavi, Book VI, Story III, §3 · 📖 Read the full passage
✨ To meditate on today
According to Rumi, the Persian Sufi poet, words are like bodies and their meaning like a soul: the eyes of the body stop at the form, while those of the soul reach the deep meaning, which alone guides. Today, when someone speaks to you, listen beyond their words to the intention and the need they carry, before you answer.
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