"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."
This is a most beautiful and profound quote.
I have seen it famously given reference to as a quote from Jalal ad-Din Rumi (who was born 800 years ago). It is however also written word for word in A Course in Miracles (page 338 chapter 16 IV:6).
A course in miracles is supposed to be a channeled original work.
I can find the quote all over the internet accredited to Rumi, yet I cannot find any conclusive evidence of it's origin. Does anyone know any more? Any insight much appreciated.
Well, the BBC accredit it to Rumi, and they usually (I say usually!) do their research:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/movingwords/quotefeature/rumi.shtml
Perhaps a course in miracles have just nicked it. 😉
From what I can see, it seems that only "a course in miracles" accredit that quote to Jesus:
As Jesus exhorts his students: [INDENT]Your task is not to seek for love [or hear the Holy Spirit's Voice], but merely to seek and find all of the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. It is not necessary to seek for what is true, but it is necessary to seek for what is false (T-I6.IV.6:1-2).[/INDENT]
Everywhere else accredits it to Rumi.
I'd personally go with the majority in this case.
Well, the BBC accredit it to Rumi, and they usually (I say usually!) do their research:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/movingwords/quotefeature/rumi.shtml
Perhaps a course in miracles have just nicked it. 😉
Well done 🙂 Thanks for the link!
I do always 'wonder' about channelled material.
Yes, some "chanelling" is just retrieving that which we already know in our unconscious mind. It could just be that whoever did the "chanelling" had heard the quote somewhere before and had it stored away in their unconscious just waiting to come out. 😉
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