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The Masnavi is a long poem of advice in which the narrator keeps turning the reader's question back on the reader. This line is the compressed version of that habit: the thing you are hunting for is already the thing that is doing the hunting.
Source: The Masnavi
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The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
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