Out beyond Ideas of wrongdoing
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi wrote in Persian and was
a Sufi, born in 1207
Full Poem
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing,
Rumi, 13th century
There is a field. I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
doesn’t make any sense.
Book in the collection of Bruce Hamilton