How to Fall in Love: Rumi, & Pema. Do not Seek & Ye Shall Find.

The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.

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The Beloved Poet, Rumi.

“Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek & find
all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.”

~ Rumi

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Bonus:

Pema Chodron on opening your heart:

“The only reason we don’t open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don’t feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else’s eyes. ”

“When you open yourself to the continually changing, impermanent, dynamic nature of your own being and of reality, you increase your capacity to love and care about other people and your capacity to not be afraid. You’re able to keep your eyes open, your heart open, and your mind open. And you notice when you get caught up in prejudice, bias, and aggression. You develop an enthusiasm for no longer watering those negative seeds, from now until the day you die. And, you begin to think of your life as offering endless opportunities to start to do things differently.”

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For more:

“Rumi is Social Media Crack Cocaine.” ~ Waylon Lewis

Pema Chodron: How to do Tonglen, a meditation practice for difficult times.