“Your task is not to seek love but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it” Did Rumi really write this or is it from a course in miracles? If Rumi did write it who did the translating? Have looked, cannot not seem to get to the bottom of this. You guys are my last hope of getting the straight dope once and for all!
"… This is very definitely a direct quote from the original scribal Notes of ACIM. We can see the context here…
“There IS no conflict in the choice between truth and illusion. Seen in these terms, NO-ONE would hesitate. But conflict enters the instant the choice seems to be one BETWEEN ILLUSIONS, for this choice does NOT matter. Where one choice IS as dangerous as the other, the decision MUST be one of despair.
T.16.E.6. Your task is NOT to seek for love, 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. Every illusion is one of fear, WHATEVER form it takes. And the attempt to escape from one illusion INTO ANOTHER, MUST fail. If you seek love OUTSIDE yourself, you can be certain that you perceive hatred within, AND ARE AFRAID OF IT. Yet peace will never come from the ILLUSION of love, but ONLY from its reality.” ~ A Course in Miracles
And I wouldn’t consider “A Course in Miracles” as a good source for anything.