Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī (Persian: جلالالدین محمد رومی), also known as Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī (جلالالدین محمد بلخى), Mevlânâ/Mawlānā (Persian: مولانا, lit. ’our master’) and Mevlevî/Mawlawī (Persian: مولوی, lit. ’my master’), but more popularly known simply as Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century Persian poet, Hanafi faqih, Islamic scholar, Maturidi theologian and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Greater Iran.
Rumi’s influence transcends national borders and ethnic divisions: Iranians, Tajiks, Turks, Greeks, Pashtuns, other Central Asian Muslims, as well as Muslims of the Indian subcontinent 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 various formats. Rumi has been described as the “most popular poet” and the “best selling poet” in the United States.
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Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear,
But love unexplained is clearer.
2#
“I said: what about my eyes?
He said: Keep them on the road.
I said: what about my passion?
He said: Keep it burning.
I said: what about my heart?
He said: Tell me what you hold inside it?
I said: pain and sorrow.
He said: stay with it.
The wound is the place where the
Light enters you.
~ Rumi♡
3#
Love sewed us securely together,
we owe nothing to the needle and thread.
4#
If the house of the world is dark,
Love will find a way to create windows.
5#
Love itself describes it’s own perfection.
Be speechless and listen.
~Rumi
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“Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.” ~ Rumi
7#
“Love is not an emotion… it’s your very existence.” ~ Rumi
8#
“Raise your words, not voice.
It is rain that grows flowers,
not thunder.”
~ Rumi♡
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“Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.” ~ Rumi
10#
“Only from the heart can you touch the sky.” ~ Rumi
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“Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that.” ~ Rumi
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“Love is the bridge between you and everything.” ~ Rumi
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“Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there.” ~ Rumi
14#
“If I love myself, I love you. If I love you, I love myself.” ~ Rumi
15#
“Let your teacher be love itself.” ~ Rumi
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“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” ~ Rumi
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“Let the beauty we love be what we do.” ~ Rumi
18#
“Laugh as much as you breathe. Love as long as you live.” ~ Rumi
19#
“Be soulful. Be kind. Be in love.” ~ Rumi
20#
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.” ~ Rumi
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“This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.” ~ Rumi
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“Love risks everything and asks for nothing.” ~ Rumi
“Come out of the circle of time and into the circle of love.” ~ Rumi
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“Whatever happens, just keep smiling and lose yourself in love.” ~ Rumi
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“On the path of love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of the master painter.” ~ Rumi
25#
“Come out of the circle of time and into the circle of love.” ~ Rumi
26#
“Every moment is made glorious by the light of love.” ~ Rumi
27#
“Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.” ~ Rumi
28#
“The way you make love is the way God will be with you.” ~ Rumi
29#
“If you want to be more alive, love is the truest health.” ~ Rumi
30#
“You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.” ~ Rumi
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