Subject: [KIT] The Door Is Round And Open

From: Carl Karasti <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:19:37 -0500

The Door Is Round And Open

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
                     Don't go back to sleep.

With the first glimmers of awakening from the sleep of ordinary life
New found clarity opens you to an exciting current of impressions
That seem to be hidden away from all who remain asleep.
Don't go back to sleep again and ignore all the
Deep secrets of life these lofty influences may reveal.

You must ask for what you really want.
                 Don't go back to sleep.

If you really want to awaken from the sleep of ordinary life,
You must ask, you must open yourself to the enticing possibilities
Available to you and to all true lovers of awakening.
Don't go back to sleep again and miss out on this
Amazing opportunity to realize your soul's true longing.

People are going back and forth across the doorsill
                         where the two worlds touch.

There are people crossing the doorsill in both directions,
Those who are truly praying for this awakening and
Those who have awakened, then chosen to return and help,
Help us, you and me, cross over from this world of sleep
Into the realm of those who are fully awake and completely alive.

The door is round and open.
         Don't go back to sleep.

As we ascend to greater and greater heights, our horizon recedes and  
expands
Providing accommodation for our rising and expanding sense of being.
An expanding circumference embraces more than the perimeter of any  
other form.
It invites and opens into an infinite, loving expansion of our hearts  
and minds.
Don't slip back into the darkness; please don't go back to sleep again.

~ The Essential Rumi:  Translations by Coleman Barks with John Moyne  
© 1995
                                     With contemplations by Carl  
Siraj al-Haqq Karasti © 2007

With Love,
Siraj al-Haqq