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
In this earth, in this immaculate field, we shall not plant any seeds except for compassion, except for love.
My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, don't harbor bad thoughts, do not gossip and don't teach what you do not know.
There is a life in you, search that life, search the secret jewel in the mountain of your body.
A divine dance appears in the soul and the body at the time of peace and union.Anyone can learn the dance, just listen to the music.
You are not just the drop in the ocean. You are the mighty ocean in the drop.
Be kind to yourself, dear - to our innocent follies. Forget any sounds or touch you knew that did not help you dance. You will come to see that all evolves us.
I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.
We cannot steal the fire. We must enter it.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.
Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.
My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
If Your Eyes Are Opened, You'll See The Things Worth Seeing.
Dance until you shatter yourself.
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.