It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so th…

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It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home. ✨ The Essential Rumi. Book translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne, A. J. Arberry and Reynold Nicholson. Chapter 20: In Baghdad, Dreaming of Cairo: More Teaching Stories, p. 206, 1995.
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