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, not 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 in the next,
did not descend from Adam and Eve or any origin story.
My place is the placeless, a trace
of the traceless. Neither body or 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
being.
Rumi
from The Essential Rumi translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne
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