Seek not Love but for the barriers against it

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.

Wonderful quote by the great Mystic Poet Maullana Rumi. This quotes point to the essential fact all the great Mystics and Prophets and teachers have been pointing to. Our nature is that of love, we do not need to look for it as we are it. There are many barriers within us that project themselves as love, many short comings like lust, possession, wants, selfish expectations, ambitions, greed which are needed to be known understood and got rid of.

Love and reputation

Love and reputation, brother,
are not in harmony:
don't stand at the door of reputation, if you are a lover.


"Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"