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
To love is human. To feel pain is human. Yet to still love despite the pain is pure angel.
Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.
Protect yourself......from your own thoughts.
If Light Is In Your Heart You Will Find Your Way Home.
When you seek Love with all your Heart, you shall find its echoes in the universe.
This is a gathering of Lovers. In this gathering there is no high, no low, no smart, no ignorant, no special assembly, no grand discourse, no proper schooling required. There is no master, no disciple. This gathering is more like a drunken party, full of tricksters, fools, mad men and mad women. This is a gathering of Lovers.
God (in His mercy) accepts false coin.
The miracle of Jesus is himself, not what he said or did.
Passion is present when a man can distinguish between the wine and the container. Two men see a loaf of bread. One hasn't eaten anything for ten days. The other has eaten five times a day, every day. He sees the shape of the loaf. The other man with his urgent need sees inside into the taste, and into the nourishment the bread could give. Be that hungry, to see within all beings the Friend.
Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.
Iron was black and sheenless, but cleansing and polishing washed away its blackness.
The unseen presence keeps saying to us, ‘You are Joy!’
Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.