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
Like the birds of the sea, men come from the ocean-the ocean of the soul. How could this bird, born from that sea, make his dwelling here?
There is a community of the spirit . . . Open your hands if you want to be held . . . Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking . . . Flow down and down in always widening rings of being.
There is a city in which you find everything you desire-handsome people, pleasures, ornaments of every kind-all that the natural person craves. However, you cannot find a single wise person there.
At every moment, Love's voice talks to us from left and from right. All we have to do is to know how to listen.
What is a tiny insignificant seed that, when Spring arrives, It should not be annihilated for a tree to arrive.
Wings of Love long only to fly away from all directions.
Let a thousand wrangling desires become one Love.
As long as an angel is not annihilated, it is a devil.
Tomorrow you'll be brave, you say? Fool! Dive today.
There is a window between heart and heart: They are never separate like two bodies. Two lamps may not be united in their form - But their light merges into each other.
Whatever purifies you is the correct road.
Those who don't want to change, let them sleep.
Where you are, whatever your condition is; Always try to be a lover.
Your defects are the ways that glory gets manifested ... That's where the Light enters you.