My friend, I am not what I seem, - Rumi & Gibran -

My friend, I am not what I seem..

- Rumi & Gibran -

Study me as much as you like,

you will not know me, 

for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be. 

Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, 

for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.” 

- Rumi -

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My friend, I am not what I seem. 

Seeming is but a garment I wear—a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee from my negligence. 

The “I” in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and

therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable. 

I would not have thee believe in what I say nor trust in what I

do—for my words are naught but thy own thoughts in sound and my

deeds thy own hopes in action.

- Gibran -