One single solitary task
The Master said, "There is one thing in this world which must never be forgotten. If you were to forget everything else, but did not forget that, then there would be no cause to worry; whereas if you performed and remembered and did not forget every single thing, but forgot that one thing, then you would have done nothing whatsoever. It is just as if a king had sent you to a country to carry out a specific task. You go and perform a hundred other tasks; but if you have not performed that particular task on account of which you were sent into that country, it is as if you had performed nothing at all. So man has come into this world for a particular task, and that is his purpose; if he does not perform it, then he will have done nothing." ~~~ Discourses of Jalaladdin Rumi (11th century Sufi mystic) What is that special task that is inherent to all of us? The practi