Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames. – Rumi
I read this line and the first reaction I had was, “Oh Faaaaaaaakkk!”
The kinds that I often have when I see something exemplary, something out of the world, something that makes me stop in my track and take note. Something that makes me jealous. Something that I wish I had done (or said, or written, or achieved).
And its something that hasn’t happened in a while. Last few days have been really really draining. I cant think of a reason though. Just that I’ve been under the weather couple of times, I have been missing #sgMS, I seem to be on losing spree in my poker home game, work hasn’t been taking me anywhere, the inspiration for book2 seems to have run dry and so on and so forth.
Wait! I digressed!
I am here to talk about Rumi. Coming back.
So, yesterday a couple of days ago a few days ago my sis told me
about Rumi. And told me about some of those million amazing things that
he’s said.
And I was blown (for want of a better word). I was “Oh Faaaaaaaakkk!” and I was more. I was inspired. It was like that awakening! I felt that all the years that have gone when I did not experience Rumi, I have wasted those!
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Thing is, I had known about Rumi all along but I had
never given him attention. I had dismissed him as yet another in the Kabir, Bulleh Shah category that I had planned to explore in detail once I
have time. But then my sis told me about him and I was hooked! The calling, if I may, to read Rumi, explore Rumi is so strong, so magnetic, so unidirectional that I have to, have to read about him. And I have been reading things on wikipedia, browsing things on Pinterest and Facebook and all such places.
Each piece that I read takes me further. Each piece makes me think. Each piece makes me smile. Each piece makes me reflect on my life and my decisions and the state of mind I am in. Each piece is a golden nugget of advice. Each piece is apt. Each piece is a university degree in itself. Each piece is illuminating. Each piece makes you better. Each piece is so simple and yet so powerful that its amazing he could say it with such simplicity!
Go read some Rumi. Go get high on his simplicity. Go indulge your senses. Go put yourself at the mercy of the power of words. Go seek. Or may be, he’s seeking you?
One of things he said was,
What you seek is seeking you.