Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.
— Rumi
Verified source: The Masnavi, Book III
Rumi's counsel here is not the modern "follow your passion" cliché. He is describing something quieter — the persistent gravitational pull toward the work, the people, the questions that keep calling you back, even when you try to ignore them. The word "silently" matters: it is not the loud ambition but the quiet return that reveals what you love.
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