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Слушать(AI)This we Have Now
This we have nowis not imagination.
This is not grief or joy.
Not a judging state,or an elation,or sadness.
Those come and go.
This is the presence that doesn't.
Excerpt from the translation of Rumi by Coleman Barks.
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century Persian poet, faqih, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi my
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