Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi
(1207 - 1273)
Who is Mevlana?
Mevlana who is also known as Rumi, was a philosopher and mystic of Islam, but not a Muslim of the orthodox type. His doctrine advocates unlimited tolerance, positive reasoning, goodness, charity and awareness through love. To him and to his disciples all religions are more or less truth. Looking with the same eye on Muslim, Jew and Christian alike, his peaceful and tolerant teaching has appealed to men of all sects and creeds.
Mevlana's books are translated to many languages and are among the best selling books of their sort all over the world. At present, Mevlana, better known there as Rumi, is the "best selling poet" in United States of America. The Essential Rumi by Coleman Barks has sold more than a quarter of a million copies and is one of the top 1000 best selling books at Amazon. It is by far the largest selling poem book ever!
- rumi poet of the heart
- love poems of rumi, my burning heart and bittersweet
- say I am You
- Whoever acts with respect will get respect.
- Quit acting like a wolf, and feel the shepherd's love filling you.
- Protect yourself......from your own thoughts.
- Reality is blocked by form and image.
- 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 eachother all along.
- If you don’t try to fly, and so break yourself apart, you will be broken open by death, when it’s too late for all you could become.
- I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way. Whoever brought me here, will have to take me home.
- Be with those who help your being. Don't sit with indifferent people, whose breath comes cold out of their mouths.
- The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.
- Love is the house of God and you are living in that house.
-I burn away; laugh; my ashes are alive!
I die a thousand times:
My ashes dance back-
A thousand new faces
- The eye goes blind when it only wants to see why.
- If you want to hold the beautiful one, hold yourself to yourself.
- Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.
- Trust means you're ready to risk what you currently have.
- Finding faults is for those with tired minds.
- God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches you by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly - not one.
-Come on sweetheart
let's adore one another
before there is no more
of you and me
- And You? When will you begin that long journey into Yourself?
- Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.
-This phantom world gave you false signs
But you turned from the illusion
and journeyed to the land of truth.
- Our death is our wedding with eternity.
- The bird of vision is flying towards You with the wings of desire.
- Remember God so much that you are forgotten.
- Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them.
- Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.
- To Love is to reach God.
-People are distracted by objects of desire,
and afterward repent of the lust they've indulged,
because they have indulged with a phantom
and are left even farther from Reality than before.
- Giving thanks for abundance is sweeter than the abundance itself...
- Infinite mercy flows continually But you're asleep and can't see it.
-It is Love and the Lover that live eternally -
Don't lend your heart to anything else; all else is borrowed.
-If destiny comes to help you,
Love will come to meet you.
A life without love isn't a life
- Wisdom is like the rain. Its source is limitless, but it comes down according to the season.
-Love is an endless ocean,
with no beginning or end.
Imagine,
a suspended ocean,
riding on a cushion of ancient secrets.
-You were born with potential
You were born with goodness and trust
You were born with ideals and dreams
You were born with greatness
You were born with wings
You are not meant for crawling, so don't.
You have wings
Learn to use them,and fly.
-Hold on to the reins of Love and don’t be afraid
Hold on to the real behind the false and don’t be afraid.
- Wherever you stand be the soul of that place.
- The soul: a wide listening sky with thousands of candles.
-No end, no end to the journey
no end, no end never
become the sky
take an axe to the prison wall,
escape
walk out like someone
suddenly born into color
do it now .
- He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, ‘Live!'
- We rarely hear the inward music, but we're all dancing to it nevertheless.
- The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire. Your essence is gold hidden in dust. To reveal its splendor you need to burn in the fire of love.
- By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.
-When you do things from your soul,
you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
When actions come from another section,
the feeling disappears.
- Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
-No mirror ever became iron again;
No bread ever became wheat;
No ripened grape ever became sour fruit.
Mature yourself and be secure from a change for the worse.
Become the light.
- Since in order to speak, one must first listen, learn to speak by listening.
- Beware! Don't allow yourself to do what you know is wrong, relying on the thought, 'Later I will repent and ask God's forgiveness.'
- The intelligent want self-control; children want candy.
- Patience is the key to joy.
- Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.
- People of the world don't look at themselves, and so they blame one another.
- Don't allow your animal nature to rule your reason.
- Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
- Come out of the circle of time, and into the circle of love.
- What is a highway to one is a disaster to the other.
- Be a lamp, a lifeboat, a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.
- You moan, "She left me." "He left me," Twenty more will come.
