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
Your way begins at the other side. Become the sky.
Things are such that someone lifting a cup, or watching the rain, petting a dog, or singing, just singing - could be doing as much for this universe as anyone.
We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat!...
I should sell my tongue and buy a thousand ears when that One steps near and begins to speak.
Flowers open every night across the sky, a breathing peace, and sudden flame catching.
Trade your cleverness for bewilderment.
I feel like the earth, astonished at fragrance borne in the air, made pregnant with mystery from a drop of rain.
I am your own voice echoing off the walls of God
Don't see yourself as a body of clay; See yourself as a mirror reflecting the divine beauty.
How do I know who I am or where I am? How could a single wave locate itself in an ocean.
How can you ever hope to know the Beloved Without becoming in every cell the Lover?
Empathy is even better than talking in one language
If you put your soul against the oar with me, the power that made the universe will enter your sinew from a source not outside of your limbs, but from a holy realm that lives within us.
From the urgent way lovers want each other to the seeker's search for truth, all moving is from the mover. Every Pull Draws Us To The Ocean.