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
Soul, a moving river. Body, the riverbed.
All loves are a bridge to Divine love. Yet, those who have not had a taste of it do not know!
It's no good giving my heart and my Soul because you already have these. So I've brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me.
All your restlessness is out of your desire for stillness Just desire restlessly, then, love will fill and still you. All your unhealthiness is out of your desire for health, Just abandon health, then, even poison will heal you...
For only when faithfulness turns to betrayal And betrayal into trust Can any human being become part of the truth.
The sweetness and delights of the resting-place are in proportion to the pain endured on the Journey. Only when you suffer the pangs and tribulations of exile will you truly enjoy your homecoming.
O Seeker, pain and suffering make one aware of God.
Love is the sea where intellect drowns.
We alchemists look for talent that can heat up and change. Lukewarm won't do. Halfhearted holding back, well-enough getting by? Not here.
There is no salvation for the soul but to fall in love.
From cane reeds, sugar. From a worm's cocoon, silk. Be patient if you can, and from sour grapes will come something sweet.
Light the incense! You have to burn to be fragrant.
Let yourself be gently pulled by the deeper desire of what you want.
Listen to presences inside poems, Let them take you where they will. Follow those private hints, and never leave the premises.