Rumi Quotes About Purpose
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The lion is most handsome when looking for food.
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No better love than love with no objective, no more satisfying work than work with no purpose. If you could give up tricks and cleverness, that would be the cleverest trick!
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It was our Creator who led us through the stages of evolution, from the animal state to the human. His purpose was to make us intelligent and aware, so that we might know Him.
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God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart." "God gave you life and bestowed upon you his attributes; eventually you will return to him." "The rewards of life and devotion to God are love and inner rapture, and the capacity to receive the light of God.
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It is as if a king had sent you to a country to carry out one special, specific task. You go to the country and you perform a hundred other tasks, but if you have not performed the task you were sent for, it is as if you have done nothing at all. So people have come into the world for particular tasks, and that is our purpose. If we don't perform it, we will have done nothing.
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Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.
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Our purpose here on earth: to manifest the very nature of our spirit, which is touched by the spirit of God.
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Because the Beloved wants to know, unseen things become manifest. Hiding is the hidden purpose of creation.
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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.
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God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart.
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Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.
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