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
May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.
May these vows and this marriage be blessed.
Raise your words, not your voice.
A warm, rainy day-this is how it feels when friends get together. Friend refreshes friend then, as flowers do each others, in a spring rain.
Live at the empty heart of paradox. I'll dance with you there, cheek to cheek.
The thirsty look for water, but water also looks for thirsty.
Don't grieve for what doesn't come. Some things that don't happen keep disasters from happening.
Sit with lovers and choose their state. Do not stay long with those who are not living in the heart.
In things spiritual, there is no partition, no number, no individuals. How sweet is the oneness-unearth the treasure of Unity.
The images we create could turn into wild beasts and tear us to pieces.
Some huge work goes on growing. How could one person´s words matter? Where you walk heads pop from the ground. What is one seed head compared to you? On my death day I´ll know the answer. I have cleared this house, so that your work can, when it comes, fill every room. I slide like an empty boat pulled over the water.
A thief loves the night. I am day. I reveal essences.
Love opens my chest, and thought returns to its confines.
Let Silence speak to you about the secrets of the universe.