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
When the ocean surges, don't let me just hear it. Let it splash inside my chest!
Oh Soul! You worry too much. Your arms are heavy with treasures of all kinds.
You have been a prisoner of a little pond I am the ocean and its turbulent flood Come merge with me leave this world of ignorance
There is nothing outside of yourself, look within. Everything you want is there. You are That.
I come to YOU without ME, come to ME without YOU.
We are the Sun with all the different kinds of Light.
When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.
Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure.
There is a field beyond all notions of right and wrong. Come, meet me there.
There is no reality but God , says the completely surrendered sheik, who is an ocean for all beings.
What hurts the soul? To live without tasting the water of its own essence.
Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure.
The illuminated life can happen now, in the moments left. Die to your ego, and become a True Human Being.
Apparently two, but one in soul, you and I...