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Слушать(AI)There is a Way
There is a way between voice and presencewhere information flows.
In disciplined silence it opens.
With wandering talk it closes.
Excerpt from the translations of Rumi by Coleman Barks
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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