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
Set your sights on a place higher than your eyes can see.
I don’t know why; when I look at you, I see myself
Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape.
From understanding comes LOVE.
Why are you knocking at every door ? Go, knock at the door of your own heart.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.
What was said to the rose that made it open, was said to me, here in my chest.
Mount the stallion of love and do not fear the path, love’s stallion knows the way exactly. With one leap, Love’s horse will carry you home.
Fall in love in such a way that it frees you from any connecting.
In the blackest of your moments, wait with no fear.
We are the mirror - As well as the face in it.
Love is such a vast sea, it has neither edges nor ends nor corners.
Everything has to do with loving and not loving.
We came whirling out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust... The stars made a circle, and in the middle, we dance.