| You make a hundred resolutions to journey somewhere: He draws you somewhere else.
 
 He turns the horse's bridle in every direction
 that the untrained horse may gain knowledge of the rider.
 The clever horse is well-paced
 because it knows a rider is mounted upon it.
 
 He fixed your heart on a hundred passionate desires,
 disappointed you, and then broke your heart.
 
 Since He broke the wings of your first intention,
 how do you doubt the existence of the Wing-breaker?
 
 Since His ordainment snapped the cord of contrivance,
 how can you remain blind to His Command?
 
 ~ Rumi
 -- Mathnawi III: 4456-4461
 Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
 "Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"
 Threshold Books, 1996
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