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
You are dreaming your thirst when the water you want is inside the big vein on your neck.
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.
If I hold you with my emotions, you'll become a wished-for companion.
Trade your cleverness for bewilderment.
Walk out like someone suddenly born into colour. Do it now.
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
The here-and-now mountain is a tiny piece of a piece of straw blown off into emptiness.
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.
You show your worth by what you seek.
How can you ever hope to know the Beloved Without becoming in every cell the Lover?
Don't insist on going where you think you want to go. Ask the way to the spring.