The One You Are Searching For

"You are in love with your "state of feeling" ; you are not in love with God; you are attached to Me in the hope of experiencing the "feeling".
Go seek a love like this, if you are spiritually alive; otherwise you are slave to the changing time, and form, and feeling.
Do not regard your ugly or beautiful form; regard Love, and the object of your search.
Do not regard the fact that you are despicable or infirm; look upon your aspiration, O noble one.
In whatsoever state you are in, keep searching; O you with dry lip, always be seeking the water.
For that dry lip of yours gives evidence that it will reach the source of the spring.
Dryness of lip is a message from the water to say that this agitation, and anxious search will bring you to the water.
For this seeking is a blessed motion; this search is a killer of all the obstacles on the way to God.
This search is the key to the things sought by you, this search is your army and the victory of your banners.
This search is like the rooster crowing and proclaiming that dawn is at hand."

Rumi (Vol. 3 from 1423-1444)

Commentary: The feelings of spirituality, (those temporary states of devotion, or compassion, or blessing) are intoxicating, and we want to feel them again. Rumi says that no matter how sweet those emotions may be, they are not really the point. What is essential is the seeking; our moving towards God.