Only Breath
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 the next,
did not descend
from Adam and Eve
or any origin story.

My place is 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

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing

there is a field.

I'll meet you there.


When the soul lies down in that grass

the world is too full to talk about.


Ideas, language, even the phrase 'each other'

doesn't make any sense.




~Rumi

"May the sun bring you new energies by day,

May the moon softly restore you by night,

May the rain wash away any worries you may have,

And then, all the days of your life, May you walk gently

through the world, and know it's beauty and yours."