Be With Those Who Help Your Being

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Be with those who help your being.

Don't sit with indifferent people, whose breath

comes cold out of their mouths.

Not these visible forms, your work is deeper.

A chunk of dirt thrown in the air breaks to pieces.

If you don't try to fly,

and so break yourself apart,

you will be broken open by death,

when it's too late for all you could become.

Leaves get yellow. The tree puts out fresh roots

and makes them green.

Why are you so content with a love that turns you yellow?

~ Maulana Jalalu'l-din Rumi

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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.

~ Dag Hammarskjöld