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 a town
where he has aways 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 sleepinag
there is an inner wakefulness,
that directs the dream
and that will eventually startle us back
to the truth of who we are.

Rumi


Where are you living?
What are you doing?
What are your relationships?
Are you in right relation?
Where is your water?
Know your garden.
It is time to speak your Truth.
Create your community.
Be good to each other.
And do not look outside yourself for the leader
There is a river flowing now very fast.
It is so great and swift that there
are those who will be afraid. They will try to hold
on to the shore. They will feel they are being torn
apart and will suffer greatly. Know the river has its destination.
The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off into the
middle of the river, keep our eyes open, and our heads above
the water. And I say, see who is in there with you
and celebrate. At this time in history, we are to take nothing
personally. Least of all, ourselves. For the moment
that we do, our spiritual growth and journey comes to
a halt. The time of the lone wolf is over. Gather yourselves!
Banish the world struggle from your attitude and you
vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a
sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.

Elders of the Hopi Nation
Oraibi, Arizona