Rumi
Rumi
Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī, Mawlānā/Mevlânâ, Mevlevî/Mawlawī, and more popularly simply as Rumi, was a 13th-century Persian poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic. Rumi's influence transcends national borders and ethnic divisions: Iranians, Tajiks, Turks, Greeks, Pashtuns, other Central Asian Muslims, and the Muslims of South Asia have greatly appreciated his spiritual legacy for the past seven centuries. His poems have been widely translated into many of the world's languages and transposed into...
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth30 September 1207
There is no Love greater than Love with no object. For then you, yourself, have become love, itself.
The spirit is so near that you can't see it! But reach for it... don't be a jar, full of water, whose rim is always dry. Don't be the rider who gallops all night and never sees the horse that is beneath him.
If you want what visible reality can give, you are an employee. If you want the unseen world you are not living with your truth. Both wishes are foolish, but you'll be forgiven for forgetting that what you really want is loves confusing joy.
Love is nothing other than finding the truth.
Forgive: if you never know forgiveness, You'll never know the blessings that God gives.
In the garden I see only your face From trees and blossoms I inhale only your fragrance.
Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel - I am the carpenter of my own soul.
Come, even if you have broken your vow one thousand times, come, yet again, come, come.
Journeys bring power and love back into you. If you can't go somewhere, move in the passageways of the self. They are like shafts of light, always changing, and you change when you explore them.
Contain all human faces in your own without any judgment of them
Love is the water of life, jump into this water.
If you wish to be a mine of jewels, open the deep ocean within your heart.
Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises
Escape from the black cloud that surrounds you. Then you will see your own light as radiant as the full moon.