Tuesday 11th September 2001


New York, Thursday September 28th 2000


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.

There is a way between voice and presence where information flows.

In disciplined silence it opens.

With wandering talk it closes.

Rumi


September cont...

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