Soul, if you want to learn secrets, 
your heart must forget about shame
 and dignity. You are God's lover, 
yet you worry what people are saying.

Jalaluddin Rumi
About This Quote

Soul, if you want to learn secrets, your heart must forget about shame and dignity. You are God's lover, yet you worry what people are saying. In this quote, the speaker is urging Soul to open up to its true self. Soul should be willing to share the secrets it knows because being human is a gift from God.

However, people do not see things as they really are. Instead, they see themselves as something other than what God intended for them to be. In this way, people can feel shame about themselves because of what others have said about them.

Source: The Essential Rumi

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