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
If someone asks, But what is Love? Answer, Dissolving the will.
We are born of love. Love is our mother.
Be occupied, then, with what you really value and let the thief take something else.
The Eternal looked upon me for a moment with His eye of power, and annihilated me in His being, and become manifest to me in His essence. I saw I existed through Him.
No more holding back. Be reckless. Tell your Love to everybody.
If only you knew what bliss I find in being nothing.
Dive today from the cliff of what you know into what you can't know.
Everyone is overridden by thoughts; that's why they have so much heartache and sorrow.
Love’s secret is always lifting its head out from under the covers, “Here I am!”
A pearl goes up for auction. No one has enough, so the pearl buys itself.
You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.
Be patient, even if every possibility seems closed.
Peaceful is the one who is not concerned with having more or less.
People who repress desires often turn, suddenly, into hypocrites.