Masnavi II, 746-47
If you have a touchstone, go ahead, choose;
otherwise, go and devote yourself
to one who knows the differences.
Either you must have a touchstone
within your own soul,
or if you don't know the way,
find someone who does.
Rumi: Daylight
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
Threshold Books, 1994
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