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“The grief-struck teach me.
The Love-drunk teach me.
Enthralled by their bravery, their joy, their triumph, I cast off my chains.
May this freedom last forever.”

Kind of sad to be finishing this collection tonight

“What do you feed the mind to make a mind kind, noble, eager to serve?”

If anyone’s writing a psych textbook and needs epigraphs, I can hook you up 🤝

“We are free of gripes, free of nagging thoughts and delusions,
raucous laughter is here,
parrots drunk on celestial honey.

A stroke of magic that we are here,
while breathing the air of Baghdad's orchards,
while breathing the air of Khorasan's streams, you and me.”

Forcing myself to be slow with this book since we’ll probably have to wait 3 more years for the next set of translations lol

“When melodies flood our ears,
scorpions in the mind drown.
Sorrow loses its sting.

Honeyed notes on a singer's lips
sweeten mine.

Round after round of joy
and no one has drunk
even a drop of wine.”

We are SOOO back 🔥