What you seek is seeking you

 "What you seek is seeking you" - Rumi.

Have you observed the process of life in which the things which happen to us are the things we have been seeking knowingly or unknowingly. 

Sometimes we have repetitive thinking of something due to desire and sometimes we have repetitive thinking due to fear.In either way by repetitive thinking we are only attracting that which we are thinking about.That is why there is so much emphasis on positive thinking.

At times a closer observation of life shows that life is not always a series of interdependent events, at times the events are independent. Let's take a mundane example,  it's not always that hard work leads to money,  money gives a comfortable lifestyle and a comfortable lifestyle leads to satisfaction. 

I have seen cases where people lead a comfortable life without hardwork or money, that is when I understood that they have been seeking that knowingly or unknowingly.whether they are satisfied with what they have or still feel dissatisfied is a different question.

Same way some people keep on working hard without enjoying a lifestyle shift, without their knowledge they have been seeking hard work.They may still be happy about it ,that's a different question.

But what these things show is that, it's our seeking which is leading us. But now comes the question of why we seek or fear different things? That's because each of us is driven by different bag of karma or samskara which acts as a seed behind the tree of our thoughts and intentions.

When human life is a combination of destiny and free will,  how can we use our free will to seek? At times in life we want something, nature gives us what we want but after that there are times when we do not know to handle that which we have got. 

So do we know to use our free will to seek the right thing ?

Mahatma Gandhi says " Seek truth to find God".

"We seek outside the wonders we carry within"-Rumi

Seek Within!