Rumi wrote a poem called Search the Darkness, It’s about how all the darkness of human beings is a shared thing from the beginning of time, and how understanding that opens up your heart and opens up your world. After reading it, I began to think bigger. Rather than depressing me, it made me feel part of the whole.
Sit with your friends, don’t go back to sleep.
Don’t sink like a fish to the bottom of the sea.
Surge like an ocean, don’t scatter yourself like a storm.
Life’s waters flow from darkness.
Search the darkness, don’t run from it.
Night travelers are full of light, and you are too:
don’t leave this companionship.
Be a wakeful candle in a golden dish,
don’t slip into the dirt like quicksilver.
The moon appears for night travelers,
be watchful when the moon is full.-Rumi
The darkness represents our spiritual wealth.There’s so much fixation on the light, as if the darkness can be dispensed with, but of course it cannot. There is night, there is earth; so this is a wonderful acknowledgment of richness. Everybody is in that boat sooner or later, in one form or other. It’s good to feel that you’re not alone.
Rumi calls us “night-travelers”, usually lost, and unable to get our bearings; easily preoccupied, and always neglecting to see the source of beauty within the people and the things we love. 
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