Discourses of Rumi

178 V DISCOURSES OF RUMIthat in your heart you did not think this?” Nojudge would say this, because no one can judgethe heart. Beliefs are birds of the air. Yet once theyhave been expressed, then immediately they canbe judged as true or false, good or evil.There is a world of bodies, a world of ideas, aworld of fantasies, a world of possibilities. God isbeyond all worlds, neither within them, nor without.Consider then how God fashions our beliefs,forming them without material means, withoutpen or instrument. As for this fancy or that idea,if you were to tear open the breast and search particleby particle you would never find thatthought. Not in the blood, not in the vein, notabove, not below. Being immaterial and beyondtime and space, you would not find it outside thebreast, either.Since God’s mark is so subtle as to be withouttrace, consider how subtle and without trace isGod, Itself, the fashioner of all! Just as the physicalbody is gross in relation to the inner meaningof a person, so this subtle and invisible meaning isa gross body and form next to God’s subtlety.