There's a quiet reversal happening here that unsettles our usual striving: Rumi suggests you're not chasing something indifferent, but rather engaged in a mutual recognition. Most of us assume desire flows one direction—we want the job, the person, the answer—but he proposes an almost magnetic pull working both ways, which means our longing itself is evidence of something already oriented toward us. When you find yourself inexplicably drawn back to a skill you abandoned years ago, or when a conversation partner suddenly appears just when you've been thinking about them, you're witnessing this peculiar choreography. The comfort isn't that you'll get what you want, but that your wanting isn't a lonely act performed in the void.