No Matter How Far You’ve Gone… The Beloved Is Still Here | Rumi

Rumi quotes about divine love, ego, and the truth within — a powerful reading from Sufi wisdom on losing yourself and returning to the Beloved. No matter how far you’ve gone… the Beloved is still here. “Hear this, if you can.” This reading from Rumi begins with a call — not to the surface mind, but to something deeper. If you want to reach Him, you have to go beyond yourself. Not improve yourself. Not refine your identity. But move past it entirely. Rumi speaks of a “land of absence.” A place you arrive only after shedding the self. And when you reach it, you don’t speak — because words don’t belong there. Ecstasy, not language, is what is spoken there. This is beyond religion. Beyond Islam. Beyond belief and disbelief. Beyond the need to label or divide. And yet, it is not far. “You are a volume in the divine book.” “You are a mirror to the power that created the universe.” What you are searching for is not somewhere else. It is within you. Whatever you want — ask it of yourself. Whatever you are looking for can only be found inside. Rumi calls you back to the present: Let go of the past. Do not hold regret. Become a child of now. Because He is here. Not later. Not somewhere else. Here. But the obstacle is the self — the ego that keeps you looking outward, defining, clinging, separating. So the path is to shed it. Do not look to the self. Look to wisdom. Look with the eye of the heart. And if you’ve turned away — turn back. No matter how many times. No matter how far you think you’ve gone. You are still welcome. The Beloved is still here. It is from the book "The Rubais of Rumi Insane with Love" with translations and commentary from Nevit O. Ergin and Will Johnson.