The Book of Rumi: 105 Stories and Fables that Illumine, Delight, and Inform

by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi

my freedom would lie in the act of dying in the sense of forsaking my attachment to my worldly talents, which I had prized so highly.”

You thought me an idiot, and now look at you! Stuck in the mud like an ass!”

ok lmao