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
Turning toward what you deeply love saves you
Don't see yourself as a body of clay; See yourself as a mirror reflecting the divine beauty.
The here-and-now mountain is a tiny piece of a piece of straw blown off into emptiness.
The body itself is to reveal the light that's blazing inside your Presence.
The body is not hidden from the soul, nor is the soul hidden from the body, and yet the soul is not for everyone to see.
The Heart that is not in love will fail the test.
What I had thought of before as God, I met today in a human being.
Your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world.
Lo, for I to myself am unknown, now in God's name what must I do?
When you're traveling, ask the traveler for advice / not someone whose lameness keeps him in one place.
He whose intellect overcomes his lust is higher than the angels; he whose lust overcomes his intelligence is less than an animal.
You have been hiding so long aimlessly drifting in the sea of my love Even so You have always been connected to me Connected, revealed in the known in the unmanifest I am life itself
Lamps are different, but light is the same.
There's no need to travel anywhere. Journey within yourself.