“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
I heard the most beautiful - and simple - story ever yesterday.
I was listening to an old Tapestry interview featuring Coleman Barks, a world-reknowned interpreter of the poetry of Rumi. When speaking of his Teacher (whose name escapes me!), Mary Hynes (the host) asked him, "What did he teach you?" His answer imprinted on my heart:
"When I met him, he told me he loved me. And I told him I loved him... and we spent the next nine years unwrapping that gift."
How simple is that?! When we love, and know ourselves to be loved, everything flows from there. When we are rooted in love, we are all students... and we are all teachers.
simply jag
xox
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