“There is no “before” left to me. It has been a long time since I have had any before. If they come, they come before an image they believe to be me.”

Original: مرا پیشی نمانده است. دیر است که مرا پیش نیست. اگر می‌آیند پیش صورتی می‌آیند که آن را من می‌پندارند. — Rank and precedence dissolve once the self is no longer stationed as an object of approach. · Fihi Ma Fihi (Persian)

• Humility
• Presence
• Self

“It is a great gift to learn to enjoy the present—to get all there is out of it, and to think of to-day as a piece of eternity.”

Celebrating presence and attention to the life immediately available · Essay, The Philosophy of Happiness

• Eternity
• Happiness
• Presence

“Remembrance is a form of meeting.”

Memory as a second presence · Sand and Foam, 1926

• Meeting
• Memory
• Presence

“It was the thought of me that brought you here. That thought did not speak a word, yet without words it drew you.”

Original: خیال من تو را به حضور من آورد. این خیال با تو سخن نگفت که حال تو چون است؛ خیال بی‌سخن تو را اینجا کشید. — Rumi answers the charge of silence by arguing that presence already speaks before speech begins. · Fihi Ma Fihi, Discourse 2 (Persian)

• Presence
• Silence
• Speech

“We are never alone, though we are rarely conscious of other presences.”

His lifelong sense that the air is peopled · Note on the poem In Dean Cemetery

• Mystery
• Presence
• Spirit