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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"The way to heaven is within. Shake the wings of love-when love's wings have become strong, there is no need to trouble about a ladder."

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"Inside a Lover's Heart,there's another world,and yet another."

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"For sixty years I have been forgetful every minute, but not for a second has this flowing toward me stopped or slowed."

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"I turn all thorn then, but you come back again and make my thorniness fragrant and pink and petaled."

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"Don’t wait any longer. Dive in the ocean, Leave and let the sea be you."

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"Kill the cow of your ego as quickly as you can, so that your inner spirit can come to life and attain true awareness."

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"Some nights stay up till dawn, as the moon sometimes does for the sun. Be a full bucket pulled up the dark way of a well, then lifted out into light."

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"Your happy songs bring to me the scent of Heaven. Please keep singing!"

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"Dance where you can break yourself up to pieces and totally abandon your worldly passions."

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"Don't seek the water; get thirst."

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"You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence, or in absence. Both mourn, the angels, the prophets, and this sadness I feel has taken from me the taste of language, so that I cannot say the flavor of my being apart."

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"Outside ideas of right doing and wrong doing there is a field. I'll meet you there."

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