The Essential Rumi
by
Coleman Barks,John Moyne,A.J. Arberry,Reynold Nicholson,Huston Smith*
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Added on: Tuesday, July 18 2006
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Source: The Essential Rumi
Contributed by: Chuck Tellechea.
Not Christian or Jew or Muslim,
not Hindu, Buddhist, Sufi or Zen.
Not any religion, or cultural system.
I am not from the East or the West,
nor out of the ocean or up
from the ground, not natural or ethereal,
not composed of elements at all.
I do not exist, am not an entity in this world
or the next,
did not descend from Adam and Eve
or any origin story.
My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless.
Neither body nor soul.
I belong to the beloved
have seen the two worlds as one
and that one call to and know,
First, last, outer, inner, only that
breath breathing human