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
A Breath of love can take you all the way to infinity
Ways of worshipping are not to be ranked as better or worse than one another . . . It's all praise, and it's all right.
If you can't smell the fragrance don't come into the garden of Love. if you are unwilling to undress don't enter into the stream of Truth. Stay where you are, don't come our way
There are many ways to the Divine. I have chosen the ways of song, dance, and laughter.
LOVE and LOVER live in Eternity. Other desires are substitutes for that way of being.
Even though you're not equipped, keep searching: equipment isn't necessary on the way to the Lord.
While the mind sees only boundaries, Love knows the secret way there.
The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak.
There is no worse torture than knowing intellectually about love and the way.
If you follow the ways in which you were trained, which you may have inherited, for no other reason than this, you are illogical.
Your defects are the ways that glory gets manifested ... That's where the Light enters you.
Spirit, find your way, in seeking lowness like a stream.
Your way begins at the other side. Become the sky.
You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.