Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī (Persian: جلالالدین محمد بلخى), also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (Persian: جلالالدین محمد رومی), Mawlānā or Molānā (Persian: مولانا, meaning Our Master), Mawlawī or Molavi (Persian: مولوی, meaning My Master), and more popularly in the English-speaking world simply as Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century Persian poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic. Rumi's importance is considered to transcend national and ethnic borders. His poems have been widely translated into many of the world's
languages and transposed into various formats. His best poems are listed below for your convenience.“It’s your road, and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.”
“The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.”
“Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.”
“The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.”
“What you seek is seeking you.”
“I am yours. Don’t give myself back to me.”
“I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.”
“Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing the rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full.”
“You have escaped the cage. Your wings are stretched out. Now fly.”
“I belong to no religion. My religion is love. Every heart is my temple.”
“Your body is away from me, but there is a window open from my heart to yours.”
“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.”
“At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come, I’ll sit up and sing.”
“The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.”
“When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.”
“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.”
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.”
“Oh soul, you worry too much. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Of anything less, why do you worry? You are in truth the soul, of the soul, of the soul.”
“Only from the heart can you touch the sky.”
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
“Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
“You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?”
“The way you make love is the way God will be with you.”
“Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.”
“Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.”
“Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.”
“Every tree and plant in the meadow seemed to be dancing, those which average eyes would see as fixed and still.”
“We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.”
“All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”
“He is like a man using a candle to look for the sun.”
“Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.”
“The lion is most handsome when looking for food.”
“Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more - more unseen forms become manifest to him.”
“We can’t help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water.”
“It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.”
“I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?”
“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
“Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.”
“You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains.”
“To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes.”
“Return from existence to nonexistence. You are seeking the Lord and you belong to him. Nonexistence is a place of income; flee it not. This existence of more and less is a place of expenditure.”
“Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.”
“The Eternal looked upon me for a moment with His eye of power, and annihilated me in His being, and become manifest to me in His essence. I saw I existed through Him.”
“Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness.”
“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you.”
“Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.”
“One day You will take my heart completely and make it more fiery than a dragon. Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.”
“Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.”
“Knowest thou not the beauty of thine own face? Quit this temper that leads thee to war with thyself.”
“Now I am sober and there's only the hangover and the memory of love.”
“The ground submits to the sky and suffers whatever comes. Tell me, is the Earth worse for giving in like that?”
“Look at Love... how it tangles with the one fallen in love.”
“A shadow cannot ignore the sun that all day creates and moves it.”
“Fear is the cheapest room in the house.”
“All that you think is rain is not. Behind the veil angels sometimes weep.”
“Liberated from suffering and search I have tied myself to the skirt of God. If I fly, I look at the summits I ascend. If I go around in circle I observe the axis on which I revolve. If I am dragged by a burden, I know where I go. For I am the moon, and the sun is my guide.”
“Oh Sweet Bitterness! I will soothe you and heal you I will bring you roses I too have been covered with thorns.”
“Silence within silence, no words within blank space, nothing on blank page, less within the void.”
“The hurt you embrace becomes joy.”
“You are so weak. Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave till it gets to shore.”
“How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection?”
“How do the birds make great sky circles... They fall and falling they are given wings.”
“Try and be a sheet of paper with nothing on it. Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing, where something might be planted, a seed, possibly, from the Absolute.”
“Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support.”
“Joy lives concealed in grief.”
“Days of wanting. Let them go by without worrying that they do. Stay where you are inside such a pure, hollow note.”
“Look at your heart and tongue, one feels but deaf and dumb, the other speaks in words and signs.”
“The delight a friend feels when he hears a friend's voice bring all that matters. There are those who hear within a voice the essence being said, and there are those who can't.”
“Don't look at your form, however ugly or beautiful. Look at love and at the aim of your quest...O you whose lips are parched, keep looking for water. Those parched lips are proof that eventually you will reach the source.”
“Come out of the circle of time and into the Circle of Love.”
“You are searching the world for treasure, but the real treasure is yourself.”
“Not the ones speaking the same language, but the ones sharing the same feeling understand each other.
“Come into my eyes, and look at me through them, for I have chosen a home far beyond what eyes can see.”
“Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain which grows flowers, not thunder.”
“There is hope after despair and many suns after darkness.”
“The real beloved is that one who is unique, who is your beginning and your end.”
“The very center of your heart is where life begins, the most beautiful place on earth.”
“Light up the fire of love inside and blaze the thoughts away.”
“If you wish to be a mine of jewels, open the deep ocean within your heart.”
“Blessed is the poem that comes through me but not of me because the sound of my own music will drown the song of Love.”
“Love is a mirror..You see nothing but your reflection..You see nothing but your real face.”
“Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.”
“I looked in temples, churches and mosques. But I found the Divine in my heart.”
“All doubt, despair, and fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes love.”
“Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”
“The cure for pain is in the pain.”
“Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.”
“If you wish for light, be ready to receive light.”
"Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor it is etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever."
“We rarely hear the inward music, but we’re all dancing to it nevertheless.”
“Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.”
“When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of distress and anxiety. If I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without any pain.”
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
“Go find yourself first so you can find me.”
--Jalal ad-Din Rumi
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