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
let's get away from all the clever humans who put words in our mouth let's only say what our hearts desire.
All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.
There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate thyself, do not become a monk: chastity depends on the existence of lust.
Your radiance shines in every atom of creation yet our petty desires keep it hidden.
Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of greed for more, or out of fear of poverty and need.
And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.
I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.
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.