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When you see the dust-cloud, see the wind too! When you see the foam, see the ocean that heaves it! Ah! look till you see your own real final cause, The rest of you is only fat and flesh, warp and woof.
Source Masnavi, Book VI, Story V, §3 · 📖 Read the full passage
✨ To meditate on today
According to Rumi, the Persian Sufi poet, the foam moves only because the ocean lifts it, and the dust rises only because the wind carries it: behind each thing he invites us to see God who moves it, and to seek within ourselves our true reason for being, deeper than the body. Today, faced with an event large or small, ask yourself: “What is the wind behind this dust?”, and look for the kindly hand of God at work behind appearances.
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