
Rumi's poem elegantly and without fail touches our inner being and inspires us to go beyond our limitations towards the Divine.
"I am dust particles in sunlight,
I am the round sun.
To the bits of dust I say, Stay.
To the sun, Keep moving.
I am morning mist,and the breathing of evening.
I am wind in the top of a grove,and surf on the cliff.
Mast, rudder, helmsman, and keel,I am also the coral reef they founder on.
I am a tree with a trained parrot in its branches.
Silence, thought, and voice.
The musical air coming through a flute,a spark of stone, a flickeringin metal. Both candle,and the moth crazy around it.
Rose, and the nightingalelost in the fragrance.
I am all orders of being, the circling galaxy,the evolutionary intelligence, the lift,and the falling away. What is,and what isn't. You who know Jelaluddin, You the one in all, say who I am.
Say I am You." Rumi
Picture: Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273)
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