Finding the Light & Dancing like a Dervish
"Finding the light & dancing like a dervish" refers to the Sufi whirling ceremony (Sema), a mystical, meditative dance by Mevlevi Dervishes, symbolizing the soul's journey to God by spinning in circles, shedding the ego, and embracing divine love, much like planets orbiting the sun, to find spiritual truth and inner unity.
Whirling dervish, twirling tongue
Rising, sailing, soaring high
I speak, I chant, I whisper, I sigh
But all you hear is sobbing
Why you stain my feathers when
Your life’s your own to break or burn
Why you ask when you do not hear
I do not wish to stay and learn
My love is high above the noise
Above the dimming dance of days
My love ‘s alive beyond your stare
Beyond your madness and your ways
Stars are more than drops of light
More than movements in the night
More than every twirl of tongue
I’m a Dervish taking flight
I’m a Dervish…. Now, Goodnight
Whirling dervishes Dervishes performing a ritual dance, Konya, Turkey.
"O Love, thou art the physician of our pride and self- conceit! Thou art our Plato and our Galen! Love exalts our earthly bodies to heaven, and makes the very hills to dance with joy!"
Jalal al-Din Rumi
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