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Ananda

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Posted - May 23 2008 :  03:29:18 AM  Show Profile  Visit Ananda's Homepage  Reply with Quote  Get a Link to this Message
Fools buy false coins because they are like the true.

If in the world no genuine minted coin
Were current, how would forgers pass the false?

Falsehood were nothing unless truth were there,
To make it specious. 'Tis the love of right
Lures men to wrong. Let poison but be mixed
With sugar, they will cram it into their mouths.

Oh, cry not that all creeds are vain! Some scent
Of truth they have, else they would not beguile.
Say not, 'How utterly fantastical!'
No fancy in the world is all untrue.

Amongst the crowd of dervishes hides one,
One true fakir. Search well and thou wilt find!

~ Rumi

From 'The Mystics of Islam,' R. A. Nicholson
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