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
How could you reach the pearl by only looking at the sea? If you seek the pearl, be a diver: the diver needs several qualities: he must trust his rope and his life to the Friend's hand, he must stop breathing, and he must jump.
Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise. Whoever feels himself walking on the path, and refuses to praise--that man or woman steals from others every day--is a shoplifter! The sun became full of light when it got hold of itself. Angels only began shining when they achieved discipline. The sun goes out whenever the cloud of not-praising comes. The moment the foolish angel felt insolent, he heard the door close.
I come to YOU without ME, come to ME without YOU.
Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.
Be crumbled. So wild flowers will come up where you are. You have been stony for too many years. Try something different. Surrender.
On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day.
There are many languages in the world; in meaning all are the same. If you break the cups, water will be unified and will flow together
There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope. The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.
Everyone sleeps, except lovers, who stay awake, telling stories to God
Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.
If you wish mercy, show mercy to the weak.
There is my body, in it an ocean formed of his glory, all the creation, all the universes, all the galaxies, are lost in it.
All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.
LOVE and LOVER live in Eternity. Other desires are substitutes for that way of being.