A shepherd prayed in clumsy words, offering to fix God’s shoes and comb God’s hair. A prophet scolded the blasphemy, and God corrected the prophet. The burning underneath the prayer mattered. The grammar did not.
From The Essential Rumi by Rumi
A shepherd prayed in clumsy words, offering to fix God’s shoes and comb God’s hair. A prophet scolded the blasphemy, and God corrected the prophet. The burning underneath the prayer mattered. The grammar did not.
From The Essential Rumi by Rumi
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