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
Work in the invisible world at least as hard as you do in the visible.
You've gotten drunk on so many kinds of wine. Taste this. It won't make you wild. It's fire. Give up, if you don't understand by this time that your living is firewood.
Your legs will get heavy and tired. Then comes a moment of feeling the wings you've grown, lifting.
Who gets up early to discover the moment light begins?
If God said, 'Rumi pay homage to everything that has helped you enter my arms,' there would not be one experience of my life, not one thought, not one feeling, nor any act, I would not bow to.
Swim out of your little pond.
Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall and falling, they're given wings.
If only you knew what bliss I find in being nothing.
Nothing can nourish the SOUL but LIGHT.
No more holding back. Be reckless. Tell your Love to everybody.
What strikes the oyster shell doesn't damage the pearl.
Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!
My friend, you thought you lost Him; that all your life you've been separated from Him. Filled with wonder, you've always looked outside for Him, and haven't searched within your own house.
Rush out in the rain to be soaked with the sky.