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
You think you are alive because you breathe air? Shame on you, that you are alive in such a limited way. Don't be without Love, so you won't feel dead. Die in Love and stay alive forever.
Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?
Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.
All that you think is rain is not. Behind the veil angels sometimes weep.
Go my friend bestow your love even on your enemies if you touch their hearts what do you think will happen.
And don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.
Do you think I know what I'm doing? That for one breath or half-breath I belong to myself? As much as a pen knows what it's writing, or the ball can guess where it's going next.
Submit to love without thinking, as the sun rose this morning recklessly extinguishing our star-candle minds.
Lovers think they are looking for each other, but there is only one search: wandering This world is wandering that, both inside one transparent sky. In here there is no dogma and no heresy.
If something makes you happy in this world, you should think of what will happen to you if that thing were taken away.
You think because you understand 'one' you must also understand 'two', because one and one make two. But you must also understand 'and'.
Last night I begged the Wise One to tell me the secret of the world. Gently, gently, he whispered, "Be quiet, the secret cannot be spoken, It is wrapped in silence."
My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, don't harbor bad thoughts, do not gossip and don't teach what you do not know.
When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray.