RUMİمولانا |Open your ear

“O one who is incapable of accepting the light without the hijab. At least hear the words of wisdom, which is a light hidden in the letters.”

RUMI

Ey hicapsız nurları kabul etme yeteneği olmayan kişi. Hiç olmazsa harflerde gizlenmiş bir nur olan hikmet sözlerini duy.”

Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, Sufi, or Zen. Not any religion

or cultural system. I am not from the east or the west, not out of the ocean or up

from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not composed of elements at all. I do not exist,

am not an entity in this world or the next, did not descend from Adam and Eve or any

origin story. My place is the placeless, a trace of the traceless. Neither body or soul.

I belong to the beloved, have seen the two worlds as one and that one call to and know,

first, last, outer, inner, only that breath breathing

human being.

Jelaluddin Rumi (13th century)