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Last night my teacher taught me the lesson of poverty,

having nothing and wanting nothing.

 

I am a naked man standing inside a mine of rubies,

clothed in red silk.

 

I absorb the shining and now I see the ocean,

billions of simultaneous motions moving in me.

 

A circle of lovely, quiet people

becomes the ring on my finger.

 

Then wind, and the thunder of rain on the way.

I have such a teacher.

---Rumi, trans. Coleman Barks

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