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
Let's ask God to help us to self-control for one who lacks it, lacks his grace.
Believe in love's infinite journey, for it is your own, for you are love. Love is life
Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east.
Listen. Make a way for yourself inside yourself. Stop looking in the other way of looking.
God writes spiritual Mysteries on our heart, where they wait silently for discovery.
No more words. Hear only the voice within.
Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.
No mirror ever became iron again; No bread ever became wheat; No ripened grape ever became sour fruit. Mature yourself and be secure from a change for the worse. Become the light.
Your mind, this globe of awareness, is a starry universe. When you push off with your foot, a thousand new roads become clear.
If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.
Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey!
You sit here for days saying, this is a strange business. You're the strange business. You have the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.
The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.