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
I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.
Your magnificence has made me a wonder. Your charm has taught me the way of love.
I know you're tired but come, this is the way.
Oh you, straying heart, just come! Oh you, aching liver, just come! If the path to the gate is closed, Take the way by the wall, but come!
We are all the same ... all the same... longing to find our way back ... back to the One ... back to the Only One!
I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way. Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.
Mount the stallion of love and do not fear the path, love’s stallion knows the way exactly. With one leap, Love’s horse will carry you home.
Fall in love in such a way that it frees you from any connecting.
Try another way of looking. Try you looking and the whole universe seeing.
Lots of ways to reach God, I chose love.
On the way there is no harder pass than this: fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.
The only way to measure a lover is by the grandeur of the beloved.
Study me as much as you like, you will not know me, for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.
Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.