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Things are such that someone lifting a cup, or watching the rain, petting a dog, or singing, just singing - could be doing as much for this universe as anyone. ✨ Daniel Ladinsky, Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2012). The Purity of Desire: 100 Poems of Rumi, p.67, Penguin
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Things are such that someone lifting a cup, or watching the rain, petting a dog, or singing, just singing - could be doing as much for this universe as anyone. ✨ Daniel Ladinsky, Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2012). The Purity of Desire: 100 Poems of Rumi, p.67, Penguin

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