Discourses of Rumi

discourse 4Someone said: “There is something I have forgotten.”Rumi replied: There is one thing in this worldthat must never be forgotten. If you were to forgetall else, but did not forget that, then youwould have no reason to worry. But if you performedand remembered everything else, yet forgotthat one thing, then you would have donenothing whatsoever.It is just as if a king sent you to the country tocarry out a specific task. If you go and accomplisha hundred other tasks, but do not perform thatparticular task, then it is as though you performednothing at all. So, everyone comes into this worldfor a particular task, and that is their purpose. Ifthey do not perform it, then they will have donenothing.All things are assigned a task. The heavenssend rain and light for the herbs of the field to germinateand spring into life. The earth receives the