“Oh sun, come out. Particles dance. I see headless and footless spirits dancing ecstatically. Some dance on the dome of the sky. Come closer. I’ll tell you where they’re going.”

That’s Rumi talking about the book, “Crazy As We Are”, written by Dr. Nevit O. Ergin.

Rumi certainly had a knack for words. Dancing is the movement of freedom; it connects me with the sound of my inner music, which is constantly played in consciousness.
Rumi was the original dancer mystic; he connected with his inner being 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 with gestures of joy and joyful actions that come from within me. I am in another place; a place of well-being where there is only a feeling of my spirit gliding through the air of physical existence. Dancing is the art of bringing 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 ingenious movement of unity. My consciousness is free to focus on other moments of reality and refresh my purpose for existence. Dance transforms me into what I have always been but I forgot that I am; a dream of great expansion.

Philosopher Friedrick Nietzsche explains dance this way:

In song and dance, man expresses himself as a member of a higher community; he has forgotten how to walk and talk and is on his way to fly, dancing in the air. His own gestures are charming … He feels like a god, he walks 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 highest ecstasy of the All. Nature, without hiding its true voice, shouts to us: “Be as I am! I, the primordial mother always creative in the midst of the incessant flow of appearances, always driving existence, finding external satisfaction in these transformations.”

That’s how it is. The dance 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 seat of solitude and dancing. My dance fills the cracks in my thought; Paint my world with brilliance and bathe my reality with abundance.

Can I have the next dance with you?