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.
RumiYou left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence or in absence.
RumiOur purpose here on earth: to manifest the very nature of our spirit, which is touched by the spirit of God.
RumiEverything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?
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