Freedom from worries

davidsmith208
Mar 19, 2018
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Poem: 209. Now that your kindness has won out, this is how it is: no meanspirited people anywhere. The worries about more and less dissolve. Inside this majesty everyone becomes a king, in this country that has no beggars, just kings.

Rumi

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