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All souls alive have souls; not so soul itself.

There's bread to suit all men, but what feeds bread?

You can shift and make do for any good thing

In life except for the source of life itself.

#1450: From Rumi's Kolliyaat-e Shams-e Tabrizi
Edited by Badiozzaman Forouzanfar (Tehran, Amir Kabir, 1988).

Translated by Zara Houshmand
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