Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

In my mind, another quotation was lurking too, but when I looked it up, I had to get to know that it is not of Rumi but Hafez. And not a poem, but his answer to a translator who had asked him how to translate his works so as not to miss the essence. It's beautiful, but perhaps NSFW on NC, I fear. Shall I tell you anyway? 🙂 Remember your story the other day about the tongue of the robot. 😉

His one of the most quoted line fits perfectly to your philosophy: Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along. Though he often wrote openly about physical love, here he did not refer to that, I think.

I request two days off from service. My tasks have piled up. I'll tell you something about Rumi. I'll also make the promised narcissistic pic. I'll see you on Monday. I looked at the new images, they're beautiful. Take care of yourselves. Don't worry, the trouble is not with me. 🌹

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💜nice, deep