Vishen LakhianiFounder of Mindvalley | NYT Bestselling Author | Transforming Lives Globally

The real meaning behind Rumi's famous words

15 Oct 2022 · 1 min

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A short YouTube monologue by Vishen Lakhiani interpreting Rumi’s teachings. Lakhiani contrasts striving (the “do → be” mechanism) with aligning to one’s true self: when you ‘be who you really are’ and listen to your soul, desires flow to you without struggle. The piece urges flipping from doing to being and trusting that the universe supports the soul’s wants.

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Vishen Lakhiani

October 15, 2022

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When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of distress and anxiety. If I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me and without any pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret in this for anyone who can grasp it. What I understood then was that I was operating from the do be mechanism. Do this to be this. Do the college degree to be that. Do the job promotion to be this. What I realize is that you gotta flip it around. What I believe Rumi was saying. Don't tune in to the rules of the world that tell you who to be or what to want or what to do. Instead, be who you really are. Listen to that soul and know that what the soul wants, the universe wants you to have.