Rumi as sociologist . . .

"Traveling is as refreshing for some as staying at home is for others.  Solitude

in a mountain place fills with companionship for this one, dead-weariness

for that one.  This person loves being in charge of the working of a community.  This

one loves the ways that heated iron can be shaped with a hammer.  Each has been

given a strong desire for certain work, love for those motions, and all motion

is love.  The way sticks and pieces of dead grass and leaves shift about in

the wind and with the directions of rain and puddle water on the ground, those

motions are following the love they've been given."

-Rumi, "Love for Certain Work"