“The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep! ” ~Rumi
We experience things – traumas, hardships, heartbreak… and they wake us up for a while. We are able to see our world with a new perspective and open heart and soul, our minds accepting an expanded consciousness…. a boundless terrain of possibilities and options. And then it is as if we are overwhelmed or overloaded, or that our minds cannot make sense of any more, and so we forget for awhile… We carry on in our humanness – with our responsibilities and obligations. We suppress our inner wisdom and the draw it has on our soul. We become sad and depressed, as repressing our true purpose and passion undermines our abilities to find and feel joy. Until something else happens that jolts our very stability and strength. And then once again, there is a traumatic or other heart opening experience that redirects us on to the path of spiritual exploration, integrity, and enlightenment. How can we stay awake? How can we prevent the sleeping sickness from taking over our beings? The secrets Rumi writes about are the secrets of the universe, our personal universe as well as the collective and unified one. Listen to the whispers, the gentle breeze that echoes through you. In them you will surely find you.
And what an interesting discovery to see that those lines I quoted were part of this poem
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The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don’t go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
Don’t go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
Don’t go back to sleep.
