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Love is the Water of Life


  Love is the Water of Life

 

Everything other than love for the most beautiful God

 though it be sugar- eating.

What is agony of the spirit?

To advance toward death without seizing

hold of the Water of Life

 

From: Teachings of Rumi E.M. Whinfield

 

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