Time – Reading Rumi

I Lost My Self (1/2/2022)

There is a place where neither I nor space exists.

I ran there following my heart to find my soul.

Then, I lost my self and time.

Now for me, neither this nor that remains.

Rubailer (2016), Rubai 3, page 359.

The Rubaiyat of Rumi, The Ergin Translations (apprx. pub. 5/22), Rubai 787, Volume 2.

Once more, we have given up our heart, mind and soul.

The Beloved has come. We will stay out of the way.

We have turned our back on existence. Our direction is Absence.

We have found the One whose trace is unseen.