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
Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.
The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.
Stop, open up, surrender the beloved blind silence. Stay there until you see you're looking at the light with infinite eyes.
Set your sights on a place higher than your eyes can see.
Awe is the salve that will heal our eyes.
Purify your eyes, and see the pure world. Your life will fill with radiant forms.
Rub your eyes, and look again at love, with love.
Look at Love with the eyes of your Heart.
To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes.
The ear participates, and helps arrange marriages; the eye has already made love with what it sees. The eye knows pleasure, delights in the body's shape: the ear hears words that talk about all this. When hearing takes place, character areas change; but when you see, inner areas change. If all you know about fire is what you have heard see if the fire will agree to cook you! Certain energies come only when you burn. If you long for belief, sit down in the fire! When the ear receives subtly; it turns into an eye. But if words do not reach the ear in the chest, nothing happens.
Never lose hope, my heart, miracles dwell in the invisible. If the whole world turns against you keep your eyes on the Friend.
Study me as much as you like, you will not know me, for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.
Darkness may hide the trees and the flowers from the eyes but it cannot hide love from the soul.
Come into my eyes, and look at me through them, for I have chosen a home far beyond what eyes can see.