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" "You are sitting here with us,
but you are also out walking in a field at dawn.
You are yourself the animal we hunt
when you come with us on the hunt.
You are in your body
like a plant is solid in the ground,
yet you are wind.
You are the diver's clothes
lying empty on the beach.
You are the fish.
In the ocean are many bright strands
and many dark strands like veins that are seen
when a wing is lifted up.
Your hidden self is blood in those,
those veins that are lute strings
that make ocean music,
not the sad edge of surf,
but the sound of no shore.
Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi (جلالالدین محمد رومی) Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi (جلالالدین محمد بلخى) (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273) was an Afghan philosopher, theologian, poet, teacher, and founder of the Mevlevi (or Mawlawi) order of Sufism; also known as Mevlana (Our Guide), Jalaluddin Rumi, or simply Rumi.
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نگفتمت مرو آن جا که آشنات منم
در این سراب فنا چشمه حیات منم
وگر به خشم روی صد هزار سال ز من
به عاقبت به من آیی که منتهات منم
نگفتمت که به نقش جهان مشو راضی
که نقش بند سراپرده رضات منم
نگفتمت که منم بحر و تو یکی ماهی
مرو به خشک که دریای باصفات منم
نگفتمت که چو مرغان به سوی دام مرو
بیا که قدرت پرواز و پرّ و پات منم
نگفتمت که تو را ره زنند و سرد کنند
که آتش و تبش و گرمی هوات منم
نگفتمت که صفتهای زشت در تو نهند
که گم کنی که سرچشمه صفات منم
نگفتمت که مگو کار بنده از چه جهت
نظام گیرد خلاق بیجهات منم
اگر چراغ دلی دان که راه خانه کجاست
وگر خداصفتی دان که کدخدات منم
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I'm drenched
in the flood
which has yet to come
I'm tied up
in the prison
that has yet to exist
Not having played
the game of chess
I'm already the checkmate
Not having tasted
a single cup of your wine
I'm already drunk
Not having entered
the battlefield
I'm already wounded and slain
I no longer
know the difference
between image and reality
Like the shadow
I am
and
I am not