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
My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
Dance until you shatter yourself.
Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun.
On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day.
Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking.
Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.
How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire.
Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.
To love is human. To feel pain is human. Yet to still love despite the pain is pure angel.
If Light Is In Your Heart You Will Find Your Way Home.
What you seek is seeking you.
In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.
Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle; Love is the work of wrestlers. The one who becomes a servant of lovers is really a fortunate sovereign. Don't ask anyone about Love; ask Love about Love. Love is a cloud that scatters pearls.
We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.