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I am neither Christian nor Jew, Zoroastrian nor Muslim.
I am not of the East, the West, the land, or the sea;

I'm not of Nature's mint, nor of the circling heavens.
I'm not of earth, water, air, fire;

I'm not of the empyrean, nor of the dust, nor of existence, nor of entity.
I'm not from India, China, Bulgaria, or Turkestan;

I am neither from Mesopotamia nor from Iran.
I'm not of this world or the next, nor of Paradise or Hell;

I am not of Adam or Eve, nor of Eden and Paradise.
My place is the Placeless, my trace is the Traceless;

It is neither body nor soul: I belong to the soul of the Beloved,
I have put duality away and have seen the two worlds as one;

I seek only one, I know, see, and call only one.
He is the first and the last, the outward and the inward;
I know none other than "O Lord" and "O Lord, Lord."

Divan of Shams-e-Tabrizi
Mowlänä J. Rumi

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