Rumi - Only Breath, Read by Karen Golden

"Only Breath" is one of the greatest poems written by Jalal ad-Din Rumi (1207-1273). Some literary Iranian critics deny it was written by Rumi.
Anyway, "Only Breath" is marvelously shows how the human spiritual experience is one in all world cultures and religions. Different names are given to the same phenomenon.
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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.
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Translated by Coleman Barks
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