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
Many have been led astray by the Qur'an: by clinging to that rope many have fallen into the well. There is no fault in the rope, O perverse man, for it was you who had no desire to reach the top.
They say 'He cannot be found'. Something that cannot be 'found' is what I desire.
LOVE and LOVER live in Eternity. Other desires are substitutes for that way of being.
All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.
Don't allow your animal nature to rule your reason.
In the desire of the One to know Himself, We exist.
There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.
All your restlessness is out of your desire for stillness Just desire restlessly, then, love will fill and still you. All your unhealthiness is out of your desire for health, Just abandon health, then, even poison will heal you...
Let yourself be gently pulled by the deeper desire of what you want.
For without you, I swear, the town Has become like a prison to me. Distraction and the mountain And the desert, all I desire.
Let a thousand wrangling desires become one Love.
Loosen the bonds of avarice from your hands and neck.
The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.
Longing is the core of mystery. Longing itself brings the cure. The only rule is, suffer the pain. Your desires must be disciplined And what you want to happen in time, sacrificed.