In What Direction?

"O You, with whom God is pleased, seek the answer from the same quarter, from which your questions come to you.
The cornerless corner of the heart is a King's highway.
Why on this side and that, like a beggar, O mountain of Reality, are you seeking the echo?
Seek the answer from the same quarter to which, in the hour of pain, you bend low, crying repeatedly, "O my Lord!"
In the hour of pain and death you turn in that direction. How is it that when the tribulation is gone, you are ignorant?
At the time of tribulation you call on God, but when the tribulation is gone, you ask, "Where is the way?"
This is because you do not know God: everyone that knows God is constantly engaged in the remembrance of Him.
Sell intellect and talent, and buy bewilderment in God."

Rumi (Vol. 3 from 1137-1146)

Commentary: Rumi insists on calling us a "mountain of Reality."He is quite convinced that the answers we seek, are a sign of grace, and that we know the way home (when we are in pain), but keep turning outward to the pleasures of the world, when the tribulations are over. The whole of the spiritual journey is quite bewildering...