Out beyond our ideas there is …

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
There is a field. I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
The world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
Doesn’t make any sense.

— Rumi

By Jim Hatton

Out beyond our ideas:

Out beyond good and bad there is a field

Out beyond good and evil there is a field

Out beyond heaven and hell there is a field

Out beyond large and small there is a field

Out beyond sinner and salvation is a field

Out beyond time and space there is a field

Out beyond ugly and beautiful there is a field

Out beyond have and have not there is a field

Out beyond ego and society there is a field

Go beyond a male God and a female Goddess there is a field

Out beyond strength and weakness there is a field

Out beyond truth and falsehood there is a field

Out beyond knowledge and ignorance there is a field

Out beyond your opinion and my opinion there is a field

Out beyond war and peace there is a field

Out beyond your understanding in my understanding there is a field

Out beyond your consciousness and my consciousness there is a field … and I will rejoice when I meet you there….

The World is not broken, Be in Peace…

Jim Hatton is an author, spiritual teacher and speaker. He makes his home in the Rogue Valley, Southern Oregon. Contact him at [email protected]. Send 600- to 700-word articles on all aspects of inner peace to Richard Carey ([email protected]).