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
Where the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues.
As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.
Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?
Soul, if you want to learn secrets, your heart must forget about shame and dignity. You are God's lover, yet you worry what people are saying.
Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.
Truth lifts the heart, like water refreshes thirst.
When you are with everyone but me, you're with no one. When you are with no one but me, you're with everyone. Instead of being so bound up with everyone, be everyone. When you become that many, you're nothing. Empty.
There is a moon inside every human being. Learn to be companions with it.
Look carefully around you and recognize the luminosity of souls. Sit beside those who draw you to that.
Now be silent. Let the One who creates the words speak. He made the door. He made the lock. He also made the key.
The heart is cooking a pot of food for you. Be patient until it is cooked
Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.
The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.
Your breath touched my soul and I saw beyond all limits.