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
I have no name for what circles so perfectly.
My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless.
Dancing is when you rise above both worlds, tearing your heart to pieces & giving up your soul
In the sea of love, I melt like salt Faith, Doubt - they both dissolve. A star is opening in my heart . The worlds turn in it.
A pure heart, open to the Light, will be filled with the elixir of Truth.
All we really want is love's confusing joy.
I drank that Wine of which the Soul is its vessel. Its ecstasy has stolen my intellect away. A Light came and kindled a Flame in the depth of my Soul. A Light so radiant that the sun orbits around it like a butterfly.
Inside you there's an artist you don't know about.
Know the true definition of yourself. That is essential. Then, when you know your own definition, flee from it.
Learn to speak by listening.
Love is a tree; and lovers are its shade.
The leaf of every tree brings a message from the unseen world. Look, every falling leaf is a blessing.
Tree limbs rise and fall like the ecstatic arms of those who have submitted to the mystical life. Leaf sounds talk together like poets making fresh metaphors.
If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse.