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 grow silent. Dear soul, you speak.
The intellectual quest, though fine as pearl or coral, is not the spiritual search. That spiritual search is on another level. Spiritual wine is a different substance.
Love is that flame that once kindled burns everything, and only the mystery and the journey remain.
Every prophet and every saint has a way, But all lead to God. All ways are really one.
A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles.
What is the mirror of Being? Non-being. Bring non-being as your gift, if you are not a fool.
Our purpose here on earth: to manifest the very nature of our spirit, which is touched by the spirit of God.
Even though in the world you are the most learned scholar of the time, Behold the vanishing of this world and this time!
Be drunk with Love, for Love is all that exists. Where is intimacy found if not in the give and take of Love.
The mirror of the heart must be clear, so you can discern the ugly from the beautiful.
There is some kiss we want with your whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body. Seawater begs the pearl to break its shell. And the lily, how passionately it needs some wild darling.
Give yourself completely to the one you call God. If you are not doing it you are wasting your time here.
The day is conscious of itself.
Looking up gives light, although at first it makes you dizzy.