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
The waterwheel accepts water and turns and gives it away, weeping.
Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.
Give your weakness to one who helps.
Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad.
My longing for you keeps me in this moment My passion gives me courage
When you go through a hard period, When everything seems to oppose you, ... When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute, NEVER GIVE UP! Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!
It is Love that gives joy to happiness.
You've gotten drunk on so many kinds of wine. Taste this. It won't make you wild. It's fire. Give up, if you don't understand by this time that your living is firewood.
Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.
Someday our souls will be one and our union will be forever. I know that everything I give you comes back to me. So I give you my life , hoping that you will come back to me.
Whoever gives reverence receives reverence
Giving thanks for abundance is sweeter than the abundance itself...
Humble living does not diminish. It fills. Going back to a simpler self gives wisdom.
I am yours. Don't give myself back to me.