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If you knew yourself for even one moment, if you could just glimpse your most beautiful face, maybe you wouldn’t slumber so deeply in that house of clay. why not move into your house of joy and shine into every crevice! for you are the secret treasure-bearer, and always have been. didn’t you know?
-Rumi
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If You Knew Yourself For Even One

Rumi
If you knew yourself for even one moment, if you could just glimpse your most beautiful face, maybe you wouldn’t slumber so deeply in that house of clay. why not move into your house of joy and shine into every crevice! for you are the secret treasure-bearer, and always have been. didn’t you know?
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