If an ant seeks the rank of Solomon, don't smile contemptuously upon its quest. Everything you possess of skill, and wealth and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?
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- Attributed to
- Rumi
- Source
- III, 1445-49 (tr. Helminski, 1996)
- Culture / tradition
- Islam (Sufism)
- Attribution status
- ✓ Verified source
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