Discourses of Rumi

218 V DISCOURSES OF RUMIwhat is imagined. Out of reality springs a hundredworlds like this that will rot one day and disappear.Then a new world springs forth, even betterthan the last. Reality does not become old ornew. These are but temporary expressions of whatis Real.An architect sees a building in their thoughts.They picture it to be so tall, so long, its floorangles this way, its courtyard is shaped like this.People do not call this “imagination.” But whensomeone, who knows nothing about building,talks about such details, certainly that is different.As people say, “They are just imagining things.”