Don't Go Back To Sleep

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.

Don't go back to sleep.

You must ask for what you really want.

Don't go back to sleep.

People are going back and forth across the doorsill

where the two worlds touch.

The door is round and open.

Don't go back to sleep.

- Rumi

You are a divine creator.

Each moment of every day offers the richest of privileges to access the power of that creative energy. To say or believe otherwise is like sleepwalking - functioning in this world, yet oblivious to the infinite ways and means by which Universal Presence longs to co-create.

We are asleep to our true nature when we make another responsible for any unhappiness.

We are asleep to our essential self when we flee or fight our present day circumstances.

We are asleep to our authentic being when we fall prey to the great lie of comparison.

13th Century Sufi poet Rumi encourages us to wake up. Shake yourself from your sleepwalking and embrace your creative potential.

I realized long ago that in my world of effect, there will always be someone smarter, prettier/handsomer, richer, braver, and more talented than me. And eventually I learned that the gift of life isn't about any of that; it's about ceaselessly taking inventory of all the gifts I do possess and never abusing them through the waste of comparison.

I repeat - you are a divine creator. No one can create it, design it, BE it exactly like you.

The world eagerly awaits your individualized expression. This is your reason for being here.

Don't go back to sleep.