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
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...
I smile like a flower not only with my lips but with my whole being.
Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.
This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love, you are.
Remember God so much that you are forgotten. Let the caller and the called disappear; be lost in the Call.
Poems are rough notations for the music we are.
There is a place where words are born of silence.
If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread. If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek.