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
Whatever you lost through fate, be certain that it saved you from pain.
Move, but don't move the way fear makes you move.
Love is the bridge between you and everything.
I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.
Submit to a daily practice. Your loyalty to that is a ring at the door. Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who's there.
The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mind does not understand.
Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world.
Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.
Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.
My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
If Your Eyes Are Opened, You'll See The Things Worth Seeing.
Dance until you shatter yourself.
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.