Hello Rumi Tuesday! Are We Sleeping When We Think We Are Awake?

child little girl at window dreaming and admiring starry sky at night

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.

~ Jalal id-din Rumi

translated by Coleman Barks ¹

Are we sleeping when we think we are awake?

And waking when we think we are sleeping?

What is sleep,

and for whom is sleep intended?

Sleep has a very important role

in the health of the physical body.

But what of the spirit?

Amany Shalaby, Ph.D., teaches in her classes at

The University of Spiritual Healing & Sufism

that when the physical body sleeps,

we experience a minor death.

Could it be that sleep for the physical body

offers the spirit an opportunity

to wake from this walking dream?

And when we are in this slumber

an inner wakefulness

directs this dream

guiding us to seek what is real –

to discover the truth of who we are?

Call to the inner wakefulness inside of you

to guide you in your dream,

to guide you to return in slumber and in wakefulness

to the Essence of the One.

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