My particles are dancing!
“Oh sun, get up. The particles are dancing. I see headless and footless spirits dancing with ecstasy. Some are dancing in the dome of heaven. Come closer. I’ll tell you where they go.”
That’s Rumi talking about the book “Crazy As We Are”, written by Dr. Nevit O. Ergin.
Rumi certainly had a way with words. Dancing is the movement of freedom; It connects me with the sound of my inner music, which is constantly playing in my consciousness.
Rumi was the original dancing mystic; he connected with the inner self of him by spinning, and this dance became the art of worship for his followers. Dance has been used for centuries by cultures around the world to honor and worship a higher power.
Dancing takes me to a free zone where I can be myself and share my freedom with others. My body moves in game gestures and joyful actions that come from within. I am in another place; a place of well-being where there is only a sensation of my spirit slipping through the air of physical existence. Dancing is the art of raising my ego to the door of awakening. Dancing makes me feel good; it brings out another part of me that is linked to the world around me. I am a particle of ecstasy floating with other particles that reach out and touch the stars. Dancing with the stars I become one of them in the nifty unit move. My consciousness is free to focus on other moments of reality and refresh my purpose of existence. The dance makes me what I have always been but I forgot what I am; a dream of great expansion.
The philosopher Friedrick Nietzsche explains the dance this way:
In song and dance, man expresses himself as a member of a superior community; he has forgotten how to walk and talk and is on his way to fly, dance in the air. His very gestures are enchanting… He feels like a god, walking in ecstasy, exalted, like the gods contemplated in his dreams… He is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art . In a paroxysm of intoxication the creative power of all nature has come to light in him in the supreme ecstasy of the one who is All. Nature, with his true undisguised voice, shouts at us: “Be as I am! I, the primordial mother always creating in the midst of the incessant flow of appearances, always propelling existence, finding outward satisfaction in these transformations.” .
That’s how it is. Dancing brings me the feeling of joy; brings me the thrill of excitement; it entertains my spirit and I become who I am. The music is always playing, all I need to do is listen to it and get up from my lonely seat and dance. My dance fills the cracks of my thought; paint my world with brilliance and bathe my reality in abundance.
Can I have the next dance with you?