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
All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.
And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?
Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
I know you're tired but come, this is the way.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the beginning of the universe.
Travel brings power and love back into your life.
But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.
If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me.. For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.
Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.
The universe and the light of the stars come through me.
Beauty surrounds us.
silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.
Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.