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
What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.
Purify your eyes, and see the pure world. Your life will fill with radiant forms.
I long to escape the prison of my ego and lose myself in You.
Last night my teacher taught me the lesson of Poverty: Having nothing and wanting nothing.
Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.
Rub your eyes, and look again at love, with love.
Love is the soul's light, the taste of morning, no me, no we, no claim of being.
Look at Love with the eyes of your Heart.
Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it.
Criticism polishes my mirror.
To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes.
Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.
Your body is woven from the Light of Heaven.
There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life.