Rumi

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'.

Heart Spiritual Soul Love Light Wisdom
Born
September 30, 1207
Died
December 17, 1273
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"The here-and-now mountain is a tiny piece of a piece of straw blown off into emptiness."

Mountain Pieces Tiny
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"Every bird will follow it's specie."

Love Bird
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"Your heart mirrors not His love, Rusty with your sins it is, Remove this rust and you shall Perceive how Glorious He is."

Wisdom Islamic Heart
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"Whoever is sitting with friends is in the midst of a flower garden, though he may be in the fire. Whoever sits with an enemy is in the fire, even though he is in the midst of a garden."

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"The ocean of the body crashes against the ocean of the heart. Between them is a barrier they cannot cross."

Ocean Heart Body
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"Listen to presences inside poems."

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"You are a fountain of the sun's light. I am a willow shadow on the ground. You make my raggedness silky."

Light Shadow Sun
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"Little by little, wean yourself. This is the gist of what I have to say. From an embryo whose nourishment comes in the blood, move to an infant drinking milk, to a child on solid food, to a searcher after wisdom, to a hunter of invisible game."

Wisdom Courage Children
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"Be drunk with Love, for Love is all that exists. Where is intimacy found if not in the give and take of Love."

Love Drunk Giving
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"In the house of lovers, the music never stops, the walls are made of songs & the floor dances"

Song Wall House
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"No better love than love with no object"

Objects
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"What can I do my friends, if I do not know? I am neither Christian nor Jew, nor Muslim nor Hindu. What can I do? What can I do? Not of the East, nor of the West, Nor of the land, nor of the sea, Not of nature's essence, nor of circling heavens. What could I be?"

Christian Sea Land
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"Body of earth, don't talk of earth Tell the story of pure mirrors The Creator has given you this splendor-- Why talk of anything else?"

Mirrors Stories Body
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"I open and fill with LOVE and what is not LOVE ... evaporates!"

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"There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God."

Dignity Said
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