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Sometimes you get as frightened
as a camel.
Sometimes you get stuck in the mud
like hunted prey.

O young fool,
how long will you keep running away
from yourself?
In the end,
the thing will happen anyway.

Just go in the direction
where there is no direction.
Go, search there.

Rumi, from The Forbidden Rumi

The best dreams I've ever had were ones where I was running for my life, someone or something in hot pursuit on my heels, feeling my life trailing behind me like a long robe, expecting any moment to have it stepped on, getting me caught, trapped and slaughtered. The effort to run with a body that feels like rain-sodden mud slithering down a slope rather than a decisive, adrenaline-fuelled dash and the terror and desperation of the pursuer never letting up would get me closer and closer to panic, every muscle aching and my heart suffering start after start as each hiding place is uncovered and we escape narrowly. The two times these dreams have turned into my best dreams, do you know what happened? I stopped. I turned around, stretched my arms out, bared my chest and received the bullet. The moment it touched my skin with a surge of energy I woke up, in bliss.

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[maddie]

in the end, the thing will happen anyway...

this resonated so deeply with me through
my personal experience ~ and
my life became soooo beautiful when
I embraced the "happening" so to speak
~ exactly as in your dream ~

suddenly everything was part of the magic ~
good and bad ~ it was going to happen
anyway ~ so might as well spin a little
love and magic out of it gracefully:)

beautiful perspective!

[maddie]

btw ~ i used to go to school in Sidmouth for
a little while as a child ~
I am so in love with England
lucky lucky you!