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
To praise is to praise how one surrenders to the emptiness.
Never lose hope when the beloved sends you away. If you're abandoned if you're left hopeless tomorrow for sure you'll be called again. If the door is shut right in your face keep waiting with patience don't leave right away. Seeing your patience your love will soon summon you with grace raise you like a champion.
You are not one you are a Thousand. Just Light your Lantern.
O, Great Spirit, open my eyes, open heart's wings, open my ears to your voice in all things.
The radiant one in me has never said a word...
The quieter we become, the more we can hear.
Empathy is even better than talking in one language
When we talk about GOD, we’re like a school of fish, discussing the possible existence of the sea.
Whenever Beauty looks, Love is also there.
When water is still like a mirror it can behold the Moon.
Don't insist on going where you think you want to go. Ask the way to the spring.
How can you ever hope to know the Beloved Without becoming in every cell the Lover?
You show your worth by what you seek.
How do I know who I am or where I am? How could a single wave locate itself in an ocean.