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
The thirsty look for water, but water also looks for thirsty.
Don't grieve for what doesn't come. Some things that don't happen keep disasters from happening.
Sit with lovers and choose their state. Do not stay long with those who are not living in the heart.
In things spiritual, there is no partition, no number, no individuals. How sweet is the oneness-unearth the treasure of Unity.
The images we create could turn into wild beasts and tear us to pieces.
Some huge work goes on growing. How could one person´s words matter? Where you walk heads pop from the ground. What is one seed head compared to you? On my death day I´ll know the answer. I have cleared this house, so that your work can, when it comes, fill every room. I slide like an empty boat pulled over the water.
A thief loves the night. I am day. I reveal essences.
Love opens my chest, and thought returns to its confines.
Let Silence speak to you about the secrets of the universe.
There's hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness.
Everything is emptiness. Everything else, accidental. Emptiness brings peace to your loving. Everything else, disease. In this world of trickery, emptiness is what your soul wants.
No sickness worse than imagining thyself to be perfect can afflict thy soul.
We've given up making a living, its all this crazy love poetry now!
The only thing that will keep you from finding that which you seek is calling off the search.