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
What I had thought of before as God, I met today in a human being.
I am an ark in the swift flood of time, and my companions, a fellowship. Who throws in with us sails into light.
You cannot learn about Love, LOVE appears on the wings of grace.
Oh, wandering One, if you are in search of the greatest treasure, don't look outside. Look within, and seek That.
Listen to presences inside poems, Let them take you where they will. Follow those private hints, and never leave the premises.
Half-heartedne ss doesn't reach into majesty.
Stop looking for something out there and begin seeing within.
Fling me across the fabric of time and the seas of space. Make me nothing and from nothing-everything.
Throw off your tiredness. Let me show you one tiny spot of the beauty that can't be spoken.
Oh lovers, where are you going? Who are you looking for? Your beloved is right here.
We alchemists look for talent that can heat up and change. Lukewarm won't do. Halfhearted holding back, well-enough getting by? Not here.
Someone who goes with a half a loaf of bread to a small place that fits like a nest around him, someone who wants no more, who is not himself longed for by anyone else. He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live.
Every moment, the sunlight is totally empty and totally full.
We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat!...