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Слушать(AI)There is a life-force within your soul
There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life.
There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek thatmine.
O traveler, if you are in search of
Don't look outside, look inside yourself and seek That.
Excerpt from Rumi, 'Thief of Sleep' translated by by Shahram Shiva
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century Persian poet, faqih, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi my
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