“Oh sun, rise up. The particles are dancing. I see headless and footless spirits dancing with ecstasy. Some are dancing in the dome of the sky. Come closer. I’ll tell you where they go.”
That is 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 constantly plays in consciousness.
Rumi was the original mystical dancer; he connected with his inner self by spinning, and this dance became the art of worship for his followers. The 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 playful gestures and joyful actions that come from within me. I am in another place; a place of well-being where there is only a sensation of my spirit gliding 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 spread out and touch the stars. Dancing with the stars I become one of them in the ingenious move of unity. My consciousness is free to focus on other moments of reality and refresh my purpose of existence. Dancing makes me what I have always been but I forgot that 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, to 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 Everything. Nature, with his undisguised true voice, cries out to us: “Be as I am! I, the primordial mother always creative in the midst of the incessant flow of appearances, always impelling existence, externally finding satisfaction in these transformations” .
That’s how it is. Dancing brings me the feeling of joy; brings me the thrill of excitement; 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 with abundance.
Can I have the next dance with you?