No One Here but Him

by Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi
English version by Andrew Harvey

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"My place is placeless, my trace is traceless,
no body, no soul, I am from the soul of souls.
I have chased out duality, lived the two worlds as one."
          -- Rumi

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This popped up just as i needed it!!

Read two translations of the entire poem and Ivan Granger's commentary behind the

God, whose love and joy are present everywhere,
can't come to visit me unless i am not there,
           -- Angelus Silesius.

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She prayed, “O Allah! If I worship You for fear of Hell, burn me in Hell, and if I worship You in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise. But if I worship You for Your Own sake, grudge me not Your everlasting Beauty.”

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