Dear Lilie,
Thank you.Rumi is my alltime favotite.
I went searching far and wide and finally came up with a treasure of pearls within pearls.
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...The sea is Being, the shore is body;
The mist, grace, and the rain knowledge of the Name; human wisdom is the diver
who holds entrapped in his garment
a hundred pearls.
The soul in a swift lightning's flash
bears to the listening ear voices and messages
from the shells of knowledge;
but when the husks are opened,
behold the royal shimmering pearls!
~Mahmud Shabistari