"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." - Rumi
When faced with division, uncertainty and the volume of noise caused by technology there is one question that remains: Where do we turn to find Meaning? Humans desire a place where we can be connected with one another, have purpose and experience a type of love that transcends simple transactions. We build careers, family and an identity, but at times we experience a void within us that is unnameable, a void that longs for something more than what we have created for ourselves.
Rumi, a Persian poet and Sufi Mystic of the 13th Century, created the discovery of something revolutionary;
What if instead of seeking something ‘more’, we could subtract from our lives something that prevents us from being in love?
Rather than searching for ‘Love’ we need to search for the ways we block ourselves from experiencing Love. Rumi’s words have stood the test of time and today he is still considered the best-selling poet in America.
