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
Without you the instruments would die. One sits close beside you. Another takes a long kiss. The tambourine begs, Touch my skin so I can be myself. Let me feel you enter each limb bone by bone, that what died last night can be whole today. Why live some soberer way, and feel you ebbing out? I won't do it. Either give me enough wine or leave me alone, now that I know how it is to be with you in constant conversation.
Darkness may hide the trees and the flowers from the eyes but it cannot hide love from the soul.
Whenever Beauty looks, Love is also there; Whenever beauty shows a rosy cheek Love lights Her fire from that flame. When beauty dwells in the dark folds of night Love comes and finds a heart entangled in tresses. Beauty and Love are as body and soul. Beauty is the mine, Love is the diamond.
Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.
I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.
The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire.
Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.
As you live Deeper in the Heart, the Mirror gets clearer and cleaner.
When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame, abandoned by a fantasy. …People fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they are really tearing out their wings for the sake of an illusion.
What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.
Humble living does not diminish. It fills. Going back to a simpler self gives wisdom.
The heart is the secret inside the secret.
Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.
What a relief to be empty! Then God can live your life.