You are not that form

You stop at every form that you come to, saying, " I am this."
By God,you are not that (form).
(If) you are left alone by people for a single moment, you
remain (plunged) up to the throat in grief and anxiety.
How are you this (form)?
You are that Unique One, for
(in reality)you are fair and lovely and intoxicated with yourself.
You are your own bird, your own prey, and your own snare; you are
your own seat of honour, your own floor, and your own roof.
The substance is that which subsists in itself;
the accident is that
which has become a derivative of it (of the substance).
If you are born of Adam, sit like him and behold all his progeny
in yourself.
What is in the jar that is not (also) in the river?
What is in the house that is not (also) in the city?
This world is the jar, and the heart (spirit) is like the river;
this world is the chamber, and the heart is the
wonderful city

RUMI