Quote #52

Abundance is seeking the beggars and the poor, just as beauty seeks a mirror. Beggars, then, are the mirrors of God's abundance, and they that are with God are united with Absolute Abundance.

— Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī ق, Mathnawi 1: 2754,2750. Quoted from Living Presence in the Sufi Tradition by Kabir Helminski.