"I do not know who lives here..." - Quote by Rumi
I do not know who lives here in my chest, or why the smile comes. I am not myself, more the bare green knob of a rose that lost every leaf and petal to the morning wind.
More by Rumi
“When someone mentions the gracefulness of the night sky, climb up on the roof and dance and say, like this?”
“You've seen my descent, now watch my rising.”
“Many have been led astray by the Qur'an: by clinging to that rope many have fallen into the well. There is no fault in the rope, O perverse man, for it was you who had no desire to reach the top.”
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More on Identity
“For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.”
“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”
“Be alert and present and see that your identity is not from your past story; who you truly are is the alert presence that is inseparable from the present moment. You are this, which has no name and no form.”