Who I Am

Lesson 338: Who I Am

Define and narrow me, you starve yourself of yourself.
Nail me down in a box of cold words,
that box is your coffin.
I do not know who I am.
I am in astounded lucid confusion.
I am not a Christian, I am not a Jew, I am not a Zoroastrian,
And I am not even a Muslim.

- Jalal-ud-Din Rumi

(Translated by Andrew Harvey from A Year of Rumi)