Rumi

Poet, Philosopher

Rumi was a 13th-century Persian poet and philosopher known for his profound explorations of love and spirituality, particularly in 'The Masnavi'.

Born
September 30, 1207
Died
December 17, 1273
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"A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles."

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"Love is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end. Imagine, a suspended ocean, riding on a cushion of ancient secrets."

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"You sit here for days saying, this is a strange business. You're the strange business. You have the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine."

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"Grace comes to forgive and then forgive again."

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"World power means nothing. Only the unsayable, jeweled inner life matters."

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"Who says the eternal being does not exist? Who says the sun has gone out? Someone who climbs up on the roof and closes his eyes tight, and says, I don't see anything."

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"I have no companion but Love, no beginning, no end, no dawn. The Soul calls from within me: 'You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.'"

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"Awe is the salve that will heal our eyes."

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"Now is the time to unite the soul and the world. Now is the time to see the sunlight dancing as one with the shadows."

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"With every breath, I plant the seeds of devotion, I am a farmer of the heart."

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"A wealth you cannot imagine flows through you. Do not consider what strangers say. Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence."

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"Submit to love without thinking, as the sun rose this morning recklessly extinguishing our star-candle minds."

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"You have mourned over others; now sit down for a while and weep over your own self."

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"Go my friend bestow your love even on your enemies if you touch their hearts what do you think will happen."

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"Drum sound rises on the air, its throb, my heart. A voice inside the beat says, "I know you're tired, but come. This is the way."

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"We rarely hear the inward music, but we're all dancing to it nevertheless."

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"You've gotten drunk on so many kinds of wine. Taste this. It won't make you wild. It's fire. Give up, if you don't understand by this time that your living is firewood."

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"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."

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