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This is the video of the poem by Rumi which’ sound finally had compiled into the second “Abstracted Soundfields” mix.

Jalal ad-Din Rumi – 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 the 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.

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.

I’m just in the beginning of the discovery of Rumi’s universal, over-religion poetry but what I just saw is absolutely incredible.

A very good persian friend of mine introduced me Rumi’s world: stunning poems talking about universal oneness from the 13th century..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumi

Since then Rumi’s name in my mind, I have read several poems in english [would be amazing to understand them in persian....], and I saw different music videos with his poems in the background..

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I died as a mineral and became a plant,
I died as plant and rose to animal,
I died as animal and I was Man.
Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?
Yet once more I shall die as Man, to soar
With angels bless’d; but even from angelhood
I must pass on: all except God doth perish.
When I have sacrificed my angel-soul,
I shall become what no mind e’er conceived.
Oh, let me not exist! for Non-existence
Proclaims in organ tones,
To Him we shall return.