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 that you think is rain is not. Behind the veil angels sometimes weep.
Any wine will get you high. Judge like a king, and choose the purest, the ones unadulterated with fear, or some urgency about "what's needed."
The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.
We are born of love. Love is our mother.
Drink from the presence of saints, not from those other jars.
Don’t knock on any random door like a beggar. Reach your long hand out to another door, beyond where you go on the street, the street where everyone says, "How are you?" and no one says How aren’t you?
There is a place where voices sing your beauty, A place where every breath carves your image in my soul.
If you wish for light, Be ready to receive light.
Sing to me in the silence of your heart and I will rise up to hear your triumphant song.
This world's existence is one night long. There's a great lively gathering that night, but some people sleep through it.
You are a lover of your own experience ... not of me ... you turn to me to feel ur own emotion
Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.
In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same.
If the house of the world is dark, Love will find a way to create windows.