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"Don't think you're above them," I told my heart.

Be a balm for their wounds, don't be a barb.

Unless you want their harm to come to you,

Give up bad words, bad teaching, and bad thought.

#1021: From Rumi's Kolliyaat-e Shams-e Tabrizi
Edited by Badiozzaman Forouzanfar (Tehran, Amir Kabir, 1988).

Translated by Zara Houshmand
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