Reading Rumi, one gets a sense that the sublime truth opening ever so slightly inch by inch. As layers upon layers of egotistical mind disappear into awareness of auspiciousness, a sense comes over oneself unfolding what was once hidden. This web site is dedicated to all that is inspired by Mawlānā Jalāl-ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī.
Here is what Rumi says in Only Breath:
Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindo, 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 beginning 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.
There is a way between voice and presense where message flows.
In discipline silence it opens. With wandering talk it closes.