Inner Wakefulness

As dusk descends a field of deep snow becomes a sea. Inner Wakefulness 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. From The Essential Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks