Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi - Inner Wakefulness
Inner Wakefulness
by Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi
English version by Coleman Barks
Original Language Persian/Farsi & Turkish
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
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Poetry Chaikhana | Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi - Inner Wakefulness
This world is a dream and nearly all of us are aslseep, dreaming.
I am patiently waiting to wake up.
by Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi
English version by Coleman Barks
Original Language Persian/Farsi & Turkish
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
<
Poetry Chaikhana | Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi - Inner Wakefulness
This world is a dream and nearly all of us are aslseep, dreaming.
I am patiently waiting to wake up.