The Beloved

By day I praised you

and never knew it.

By night I stayed with you

and never knew it.

I always thought that

I was me…but no,

I was you

and never knew it.

 

Rumi

The Dream of Peace

I’m glad there is a dream. Somewhere there is a dream that peace will happen. And someday it will. That’s why it comes about – because of the dream.  Prem Rawat

 

Inner Wakefulness  by Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi (1207 – 1273)

English version by Coleman Barks

 

This place is a dream
only a sleeper considers it real
then death comes like dawn
and you wake up laughing
at what you thought
was your grief

A man goes to sleep in the town
where he has always lived
and he dreams
he’s living in another town
in the dream he doesn’t remember
the town he’s sleeping in his bed in
he believes the reality
of the dream town
the world is that kind of sleep

Humankind is being led
along an evolving course,
through this migration
of intelligences
and though we seem
to be sleeping
there is an inner wakefulness,
that directs the dream
and that will eventually
startle us back
to the truth of
who we are