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One should seek the reality a name points to, not stop at naming God
Drawn from what Rumi said
What Rumi actually said
- Rumi Persian Sufi mystic and poet Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī (1207 to 1273)
You name His name; go, seek the reality named by it! Look for the moon in heaven, not in the water!
Where this was said
↗Masnavi, Book I (tr. and abridged by E. H. Whinfield)en.wikisource.org
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