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
Only the soul knows what love is.
Move, but don't move the way fear makes you move.
You had better run from me. My words are fire.
There is my body, in it an ocean formed of his glory, all the creation, all the universes, all the galaxies, are lost in it.
Don't dismiss the heart, even if it's filled with sorrow. God's treasures are buried in broken hearts.
Soul of all souls, life of all life - you are That. Seen and unseen, moving and unmoving - you are That.
I seem restless, but am deeply at ease. Branches tremble; the roots are still.
If you can't smell the fragrance don't come into the garden of Love. if you are unwilling to undress don't enter into the stream of Truth. Stay where you are, don't come our way
Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty.
Every object and being in the universe is a jar overflowing with wisdom and beauty,a drop of the Tigris that cannot be contained by any skin. Every jarful spills and makes the earth more shining, as though covered in satin... Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty.
In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal.
Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give.
Silence is the root of everything. If you spiral into its void a hundred voices will thunder messages you long to hear.
Shut your eyes so the heart may become your eye, and with that vision look upon another world. If you can step away from your need for self-approval, all that you do, top to bottom, will be approved.