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
I said, “I just want to know you and then disappear.” She said, “Knowing me does not mean dying.
There is a path from me to you that I am constantly looking for.
But meditate now on steadfastness and clarity, and let those be the wings that lift and soar through the celestial spheres.
Work on your strong qualities and become resplendent like the ruby. Practice self-denial and accept difficulty. Always see infinite life in letting the self die. Your stoniness will decrease; your ruby nature will grow. The signs of self-existence will leave your body, and ecstasy will take you over.
Bring the sky beneath your feet and listen to celestial music everywhere.
Treasure is stored in the ruined places. Do not break the hearts of the poor and heartbroken people
Knowest thou not the beauty of thine own face? Quit this temper that leads thee to war with thyself.
There are many winds full of anger, and lust and greed. They move the rubbish around, but the solid mountain of our true nature stays where it's always been.
Now I am sober and there's only the hangover and the memory of love.
I can't stop pointing to the beauty. Every moment and place says, 'Put this design in your carpet!
Innumerable changes of moods are yours, and they are uncontrolled by you. If you knew their origin, you would be able to dominate them. If you cannot localize your own changes, how can you localize that which formed you?
Love possesses seven hundred wings, and each one extends from the highest heaven to the lowest earth.
A lover's life lies in death. You shall not find a heart without losing the heart.
There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate thyself, do not become a monk: chastity depends on the existence of lust.