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
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.
Don't put blankets over the drum! Open completely. Let your spirit ear listen to the green dome's passionate murmur.
A Candle never Loses any of its Light while Lighting up another candle.
Once the seed of faith takes root, it cannot be blown away, even by the strongest wind - Now that’s a blessing.
The world is a mirror, an imaging of Love's perfection.
Of all you see, only love is infinite.
This is Now. Now is, all there is. Don't wait for Then; strike the spark, light the fire.
All the particles of the World are in Love and looking for Lovers.
You are the honoured guest, Do not weep like a beggar For pieces of the world.
I smile like a flower not only with my lips but with my whole being.
This world is in deep trouble, from top to bottom. But it can be swiftly healed by the balm of love.
Be soulful. Be kind. Be in love.
Trust means you're ready to risk what you currently have.