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

The real meaning behind Rumi's famous words

12 Jun 2022 · 1 min

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Vishen Lakhiani reflects on a personal insight inspired by Rumi: pursuing externally defined goals (the "do be" mechanism) creates anxiety, whereas listening to one’s soul and 'being' who you truly are allows desired outcomes to flow without struggle. He advises flipping the cultural script—stop following external rules about who to be and instead align your inner desires with the universe.

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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 realized 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.