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
Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.
I smile like a flower not only with my lips but with my whole being.
When soul rises Into lips You feel the kiss You have wanted
When love first tasted the lips of being human, it started singing.
Be silent. That heart speaks without tongue or lips.
Where the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues.
Don't look at your form, however ugly or beautiful. Look at love and at the aim of your quest...O you whose lips are parched, keep looking for water. Those parched lips are proof that eventually you will reach the source.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.
My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
If Your Eyes Are Opened, You'll See The Things Worth Seeing.
Dance until you shatter yourself.
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.
Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine.
Dive today from the cliff of what you know into what you can't know.