There is a way to God if that is what you are seeking

There is a way to God if that is what you are seeking, and that is very simple: it is to joy.  Joy.  I don’t know that it is in your dictionary anymore.  Joy.  But with you it is in your heart.  It is something you cannot disavow because you come from joy and so do I.

You must discover and ascertain in your life what it is that makes you happy.  Do not work yourself to death, nor worry yourself to ill health.  Just try to love yourself.

I waited 62 years to find love in the eyes of soul wearing a human body.  Not a long time, really.  But I knew then that everything of which I had preached could be embodied in one expression of God the Almighty, and that was Rumi, and it still is.

So for all of you, go and find your listener, find your Rumi.  But the way to find your Rumi is to be as succinct, as strong, as noble, as wild and as crazy as you can.  Let yourself be you and stop being somebody else.  God wants you to be you, which is why you are the you that you are.  And if you don’t know who you are, this is a good time to discover just that.
With much love,
Shams