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Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunn

Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure. – Rumi

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You’ve gotten drunk on so many kinds of wine. Taste this. It won’t make you wild. It’s fire. Give up, if you don’t understand by this time that your living is firewood. – Rumi

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