Fall Asleep To Rumi Quotes And Ramble

This is an audio designed to lure you into a peaceful sleep. I quote some Rumi and "RUMInate" (haha) on what the qoutes mean to me....
I invite you to close your eyes and relax... if you do fall off to sleep then I hope its peaceful!
Love and light to all!

Transcript

What's up sleepyheads?

Welcome to,

Between the sheets,

This is a sleepy edition.

For those of you that struggle to get to sleep,

Or for those of you who like to listen to chatter before you go to sleep,

But mindful chatter.

It's my favourite part of the day,

When I get to lay down,

Relax,

Close my eyes,

And listen to the quiet.

And when you listen to quiet,

Your body will follow,

And it will start to relax too.

You find that restlessness can fade away,

And you stop ruminating about the day.

Stop replaying the day in your head.

And so,

We can go from ruminating to roomy.

And what I'd like to do here is,

Need you to sleep,

To peace,

To hopefully sleep deeply,

And peacefully give you rest.

So I'm gonna talk you down,

Okay?

So this is about slowly talking you down to that place,

That place inside that we all have.

Now your eyes are closed,

Just like mine.

And if you look behind your eyelids,

You'll see a dark space.

Can you find the end of that space?

Can you look and see how vast it is?

Put your attention there.

And when you put your attention there,

Notice how quiet everything gets.

It's like a blank screen.

Even if thoughts pop up in the blank screen,

It's totally fine.

You might see an image that'll appear for a few seconds and disappear.

You might hear audible thoughts.

They'll just pass by like clouds in the sky.

There's no need to hold on to anything.

Just watch the blank screen peacefully.

You're watching it with me.

And the blank screen isn't.

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It's not dead.

It's full,

But it's full of a peaceful feeling.

It's that feeling you get when you wake up in the morning and you realize that you've slept soundly.

It's the same peace.

It's just that it's empty.

It's so quiet that we don't notice it.

But now you're noticing it.

And you can feel that your body relaxes when you feel it.

It's like you feel the bed underneath you,

Holding you,

Cupping you.

You're like a baby in a crib right now.

No worries.

Just peace.

And so the game is,

Or what you can do if you like,

Is just listen along.

And you don't really have to concentrate.

Just listen to the words.

As you look at the blank screen,

I'll talk about Rumi and some quotes.

If you drift off and come back,

That's fine.

It's perfectly okay.

If you drift off and you don't wake up till morning,

It's even better.

So I'm gonna pick some quotes and explain them just the way I see them.

Doesn't mean that my interpretation is true,

But that doesn't matter either.

So I'll start.

Rumi says,

Do not feel lonely.

The entire universe is inside you.

And what he means by that is,

When you close your eyes and you look at that dark space,

That dark space is everywhere.

Just like in space.

It's fast.

It's endless.

It's quiet.

But there's a slight throbbing of light in your body that you can feel.

And that's the pulse of the universe that Rumi is referring to.

That's the peace.

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.

They are in each other all along.

And I feel what Rumi means by that is,

That peace inside you meets the peace inside your lover.

If you're true lovers,

You become one.

So when you meet your lover,

They were always in you.

And you were always in them.

There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

There are a thousand ways to go home again.

And that's got to do with gratitude.

The thousands of ways to go home again is noticing that everything is an invitation to that quiet place inside you.

My voice,

The feeling of your body on the bed.

How comfortable your feet feel right now.

Your breath.

If you want to turn and get more comfortable.

That's all it.

It's all happening on that blank screen that you're looking at.

That peaceful screen.

Raise your words,

Not your voice.

It's the rain that grows flowers,

Not thunder.

This place is a dream.

Only a sleeper considers it real.

Then death comes like dawn and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.

So what if this life is a dream?

Just like when you sleep tonight,

You dream.

This one is the same.

And when you wake up in the morning,

You realize that the dream you had that night was just a dream.

And so when you wake up from a nightmare you're having in this life,

You can look back at it and see that that was just a dream too.

That one's a little deep.

Not everyone will agree with it but it's roomy.

You are not a drop in the ocean.

You are the entire ocean in a drop.

Not stating that you are not this isolated individual.

It's stating that the whole universe is inside you.

That quiet peaceful place where you go when you sleep is you.

If the foot of the trees were not tied to the earth,

They would be pursuing me.

For I have blossomed so much,

I am the envy of the gardens.

That's roomy explaining his awakening.

Then he says,

Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?

So life,

So life can be about struggle and conflict sometimes.

It can feel like a prison,

Like you feel constricted and,

But the door is wide open.

In other words,

The quiet is here,

The peace is here and it's always just waiting with its arms open for you.

Like right now.

So you can fall into her arms.

The arms of the universe will wrap around you and hold you snug and safe as you sleep.

Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of the one who sees.

So your eyes see beauty in everything.

If you stop and look at a tree,

Like really just stop and look how beautiful it is.

That beauty is there for you to recognize it and to show you how beautiful this earth can be or is.

When we get away from all the negativity and just notice the beauty that's taken to be so ordinary.

There's a candle in your heart ready to be kindled.

There is a void in your soul ready to be filled.

You feel it,

Don't you?

So when you close your eyes or when your eyes are closed like right now,

What seems empty is full.

So the void that you see behind your eyes is alive with peace.

That's the candle but it's already lit,

Can you feel it?

Can you feel how comfortable you are now?

People look for happiness,

People look for joy but it's not found in words or activities.

It's found in silence and quiet.

Murumi says words are a pretext,

It's the inner bond that draws one person to another,

Not words.

Just like I said,

It's not the words,

It's what's underneath.

Stillness,

Silence.

That's where we all meet and he says goodbye are only for those who love with their eyes because for those who love with their heart and their soul,

There is not separation.

So when you love someone,

Really,

Really love someone,

Could be a parent,

Could be a lover,

Brother,

Sister,

Friend,

Puppy,

Doesn't matter,

Does not just think it's goodbye because you are one with them,

You are them.

Set your life on fire,

Seek those who fan your flames.

Sometimes we waste our time with conflict and being around people that can cause us pain when we can seek out people that are more in tune,

That vibrate more gently.

You can find people online like that,

You can watch meditation videos instead of watching flicking images all the time.

You can help settle your brain,

Settle your person.

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

So what Rumi is saying is,

When we're hurt,

Or where we're hurt,

Is the place to look,

The place to face our pain,

To sit in it,

To watch it,

And to let it fade into the light.

As much as you can,

Try not to avoid your pain,

Transmute it.

Wherever you are,

And whatever you do,

Be in love.

So you can only be here.

You could get up out of bed right now,

Walk outside.

You could travel 80 kilometers,

Get out of the car,

Sit on the bench,

And you'll still be here.

And whatever you're doing right now,

You're here,

Laying in bed,

You're here.

You go to the bathroom,

You're here.

You get a little,

And you think about yesterday,

You're here.

You think about tomorrow,

And you feel a little fear or anxiety,

But you're here.

You're in love.

You're always here.

I want to sing like the birds sing,

Not worrying about who hears or what they think.

Do birds worry about how they sing?

Do they ruminate,

Or do they just sing without cares,

Without worry?

When you talk,

Do you worry about what you say?

How people judge you,

Or how they look at you?

Why not be like a bird and just sing?

When the world pushes you on your knees,

You're in the perfect position to pray.

That's a quote about surrender.

No matter how bad things get,

You know that you are here,

And that it's quiet behind your eyes,

All of your body,

Your mind.

It's quiet.

I am not this hair,

I am not this skin.

I am the soul that lives within.

So you are not the body that you worry about.

You are not the body that you try to perfect.

You're not the skin.

You're the peaceful energy that's inside,

That you're feeling right now.

That's you.

Not your body.

Not your name.

You're free of all of that.

Be empty of worrying.

Think of who created it all.

So being empty of worry is like right here.

You're in your bed,

Feeling how comfortable you are.

Sometimes thoughts come,

Sometimes they don't.

But who creates thoughts?

And if you don't,

Which you really don't,

Then you don't have to worry about them.

Just notice the silence that you are.

Nrumi says,

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.

They will not lead you astray.

Do you not know yet?

It is your light that lights the world.

When you sleep at night,

Where does the world go?

And when you wake up,

How does the world appear?

Is it your consciousness?

Or is it just consciousness?

Love is the bridge between you and everything.

Love is silence.

Silence is the language of love.

Sometimes it seems as if it's interrupted by thoughts.

But without love,

Without silence,

Can there be any thoughts?

Seek the wisdom that will entice your knot.

Seek the path that demands your whole being.

You don't have to seek the wisdom.

And the knot is already untied right now.

And there's no path to walk right now.

Because with your eyes closed,

And your attention under silence,

That's being effortless.

It's your road and yours alone.

Others may walk with you,

But no one can walk it for you.

As you start to walk on the way,

The way disappears.

In other words,

As you fall into the silence,

You don't have to look for silence anymore.

And you can see right now that it's here.

That comfort and love that you feel is here.

The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.

The universe is not outside of you.

Look inside yourself,

Everything that you want you already are.

That's what we're doing right now.

And Rumi's next quote is,

Close your eyes,

Fall in love and stay there.

And we can say,

Yeah Rumi,

That's what we're doing right now.

With our eyes closed,

Falling in love with it,

And staying there.

We don't have to do that nay nay there.

It could be the morning,

It could be any time during the day when we're stressed.

Just close your eyes,

And you're there.

What is planted in each person's soul will sprout.

So if you're going to plant seeds,

Plant them in silence.

Each moment the fire rages,

It will burn away a hundred veils,

And carry you a thousand steps towards your goal.

And the fire that's raging is the fire of peace.

Silence is the power to burn away all the sorrow and the suffering.

The space in your heart is the place.

It's where wellbeing is.

If life is in your heart,

You will find your way home.

The light is the quietness,

And you've found your way home.

There's a field somewhere beyond all doubt and wrongdoing.

I'll meet you there.

When you look into that space,

That's the field.

A field of emptiness.

It's what Rumi is talking about.

When you close your eyes,

And I close my eyes,

We meet.

That space of meditation,

That quietness,

Is the same for every person,

For everyone.

Her arms are all as open to embrace you.

She's never went anywhere.

She's right here.

Be certain that in the religion of love,

There are no believers and unbelievers.

Love embraces all.

Love is the answer.

Silence is the language of God.

All else is poor translation.

If there's not silence,

There's only words,

And words are poor translation.

Sit,

Be still,

And listen.

It's simple.

It's what can help you drift away right now.

The total stillness and quietness.

You can look.

You can sit,

Be still,

Listen,

And look.

Become like the sky.

Take an axe to the prison wall,

And escape.

You don't need an axe.

You just need your eyes closed,

And your attention to wander into that space.

That sky-like awareness,

Where sound happens,

Where feelings happen,

Where everything happens.

Be an empty page,

Untouched by words.

And if words come,

They just come and go.

Wherever you stand,

Be the soul of that place.

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You are here.

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Put me to sleep! Very relaxing..

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Rumination to Rumi — ASMR — so nice to cozy into sleep. Thank you.

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Just a delight. Your voice and the content are pure joy. Thank you.

Beautiful!!! The voice is good!!

Fell right to sleep. Your voice is so soothing!! Thank you!!

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Great pacing and tone of voice for drifting off to sleep with ease. Thank you 🙏

I fall asleep faster each time. So soothing 😌

Thank you for this beautiful pathway into deep transformative sleep. Namaste

Perfect.

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I love this. It’s different, like whispering with a friend about the universe until you fall asleep. So sweet

Answer to a dream I didn't know I was asking for 🧡 wow!

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