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
Sell your presence and purchase bewilderment.
The day is conscious of itself.
Give yourself completely to the one you call God. If you are not doing it you are wasting your time here.
Even though in the world you are the most learned scholar of the time, Behold the vanishing of this world and this time!
What is the mirror of Being? Non-being. Bring non-being as your gift, if you are not a fool.
Love is that flame that once kindled burns everything, and only the mystery and the journey remain.
Do not sit long with a sad friend. When you go to a garden do you look at the weeds? Spend more time with the roses and jasmines.
If your knowledge of fire has been turned to certainty by words alone, then seek to be cooked by the fire itself. Don't abide in borrowed certainty. There is no real certainty until you burn; if you wish for this, sit down in the fire.
Little by little, wean yourself. This is the gist of what I have to say. From an embryo whose nourishment comes in the blood, move to an infant drinking milk, to a child on solid food, to a searcher after wisdom, to a hunter of invisible game.
Revile those who flatter you.
Loosen the bonds of avarice from your hands and neck.
There is a life in you, search that life, search the secret jewel in the mountain of your body.
Jesus was lost in his love for God.
There is some kiss we want with the whole of our lives.