a mine of rubies

“I am a naked man standing inside a mine of rubies,
clothed in red silk.
I absorb the shining and now I see the ocean,
billions of simultaneous motions
moving in me.
A circle of lovely, quiet people
becomes the ring on my finger.”

Rumi, I Have Such A Teacher, from The Essential Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks, 1995.

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