Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu <br />Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion <br /> <br />or cultural system. I am not from the East <br />or the West, not out of the ocean or up <br /> <br />from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not <br />composed of elements at all. I do not exist, <br /> <br />am not an entity in this world or in the next, <br />did not descend from Adam and Eve or any <br /> <br />origin story. My place is placeless, a trace <br />of the traceless. Neither body or soul. <br /> <br />I belong to the beloved, have seen the two <br />worlds as one and that one call to and know, <br /> <br />first, last, outer, inner, only that <br />breath breathing human being.<br /><br />Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/only-breath/
