Life & Wisdom Quote by Rumi

Rumi turns vocation into something more intimate than a job: a divinely planted appetite. The line is deceptively democratic. “Everyone” flattens hierarchy, refusing the idea that purpose is reserved for saints, scholars, or the socially sanctioned “important” people. Yet it also sneaks in a demanding premise: you are not a blank slate. You are “made” for something, shaped with intention, and the restlessness you feel is evidence of that design.

The phrasing does two kinds of work at once. “Some particular work” sounds practical, almost earthly, but Rumi’s “work” is rarely just labor; it’s the practice of becoming fully awake to the Real. In Sufi terms, the task is remembrance, refinement, service - the daily disciplines that sand down the ego until love can move through you cleanly. By pairing “work” with “desire,” he reverses the modern suspicion that desire is distraction. Here, longing is a compass. If you’re paying attention, what you want is not merely craving; it’s instruction.

Context matters: Rumi is writing in a 13th-century Persianate world where spiritual training, poetry, and community life weren’t separate lanes. His poetry often addresses seekers who feel stalled, ashamed, or unworthy. The subtext is pastoral and slightly corrective: stop waiting for permission. The desire is already “put” in you - not by trend cycles, not by status anxiety, but by something deeper. The comfort is obvious; the challenge is sharper. If the yearning is planted, ignoring it isn’t neutrality. It’s neglect.