Rumi Again
My last 3 posts have been about the relationship between spirituality & physicality/Earth. Rumi, of course captures it all in this poem:
Say I am You
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 flickering in metal.Both candle and the moth crazy around it.
Rose, and the nightingale lost 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, Youthe One in all, say who
I am. Say I am You.
Jelaluddin Rumi (trans. Barks)
Related posts:
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007,
by Painter of Blue and is filed under "Earth, Mysticism, Mystics, Poetry, Rumi, Earth, Mysticism, Mystics, Poetry, Rumi ".
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