This we have now
is not imagination.
This is not
grief or joy.
Not a judging state,
or an elation,
or sadness.
Those come
and go.
This is the presence
that doesn't.
- Rumi, from The Essential Rumi, trans. Coleman Barks, p. 261
That's one of the few poems I've been able to memorize. I repeat it to myself when I'm starting to freak out about something. Try it yourself, it works wonders!
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