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
Love risks everything and asks for nothing.
I belong to no religion. My religion is love. Every heart is my temple.
Be foolishly in love, because love is all there is.
There is no way into Presence except through a love exchange.
O, happy the soul that saw its own faults.
There is a fountain inside you. Don't walk around with an empty bucket.
The light which shines in the eye is really the light of the heart.
Close both eyes to see with the other eye.
Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.
This is love: to fly toward a secret sky
There is one way of breathing that is shameful and constricted. Then, there's another way: a breath of love that takes you all the way to infinity.
Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the language-river. Listen to the ocean, and bring your talky business to an end Traditional words are just babbling in that presence, and babbling is a substitute for sight.
Smiles come best from those who weep.
We often need to be refreshed.