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
Never lose hope, my heart, miracles dwell in the invisible. If the whole world turns against you keep your eyes on the Friend.
You transform all those who are touched by You.
Nothing is meaningful except surrendering to love. Do it.
On the way there is no harder pass than this: fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.
Although you appear in earthly form Your essence is pure Consciousness. You are the fearless guardian of Divine Light.
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Are you searching for your soul? Then come out of your own prison.
Cease looking for flowers! There blooms a garden in your own home. While you look for trinkets The treasure house awaits you in your own being.
Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?
I went inside my heart to see how it was. Something there makes me hear the whole world weeping.
Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of greed for more, or out of fear of poverty and need.
...one cannot lodge in if.
Tend to your vital heart, and all that you worry about will be solved.
I found the Divine within my Heart.