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
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.
Silence gives answers.
In real existence there is only unity.
Such a strong thing LOVE, changes everything.
Look for the answer inside your question.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.
Look at your heart and tongue, one feels but deaf and dumb, the other speaks in words and signs.
Look at Love...how it tangleswith the one fallen in love .
Look at Love... how it tangles with the one fallen in love .
Why do you stay in prisonwhen the door is so wide open?Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.Live in silence.
Try and be a sheet of paper with nothing on it.Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing,where something might be planted,a seed, possibly, from the Absolute.
The delight a friend feels when he hears a friends voice bring all that matters. There are those who hear within a voice the essence being said, and there are those who can't.
You are so weak. Give up to grace.The ocean takes care of each wavetill it gets to shore.
Silence within silence, no words within blank space, nothing on blank page, less within the void.