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 garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.
For sixty years I have been forgetful every minute, but not for a second has this flowing toward me stopped or slowed.
I lost my hat while gazing at the moon, and then I lost my mind.
Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen!
While the mind sees only boundaries, Love knows the secret way there.
Finding faults is for those with tired minds.
The lamps are different, but the Light is the same. One matter, one energy, one Light, one Light-mind, endlessly emanating all things.
I LOVE my friends neither with my heart nor with my mind. Just in case... HEART might stop. MIND can forget. I Love them with my Soul. SOUL never stops or forgets.
The mind says there is nothing beyond the physical world; the HEART says there is, and I've been there many times.
Sit, be still, and listen, because you're drunk and we're at the edge of the roof.
Take sips of this pure wine being poured. Don't mind that you've been given a dirty cup.
And patience flees my heart, And reason flees my mind. Oh, how drunk can I get to be, Without your love's security?
Your mind, this globe of awareness, is a starry universe. When you push off with your foot, a thousand new roads become clear.
The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mind does not understand.