From a marvelous podcast interview of Coleman Barks, a gifted translator of poetry by Jelaluddin Rumi (1207-73):
...not until faithfulness turns to betrayal
and betrayal into trust
can any human being
become part of the Truth.
-Rumi
Coleman Barks: "Until betrayal, love offered is conditional; and only when betrayed and love is extended even so, do you leave the Garden of Eden..."
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