Come, come whoever you are.

Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving — it doesn’t matter.

Ours is not a caravan of despair.

Come, even if you have broken your vow a hundred times,

Come, come again, come.

                                                                 — Rumi

• As quoted in Sunbeams : A Book of Quotations (1990) by Sy Safransky, p. 67

 

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Jelaluddin Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century Persian poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic.  (Biographical information and picture are from Wikepedia)