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 yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.
These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.
Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.
Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?
Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.
Either give me more wine or leave me alone.
I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.
And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?
Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.
Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.
In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.
A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.
You wander from room to room Hunting for the diamond necklace That is already around your neck!