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Jalaluddin Rumi

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Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi more popularly known simply as Rumi , was a 13th-century Persian Sunni Muslim poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic.Rumi's influence transcends national borders and ethnic divisions: Iranians, Tajiks, Turks, Greeks, Pashtuns, other Central Asian Muslims, and the Muslims of South Asia have greatly appreciated his spiritual legacy for the past seven centuries.

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Jalaluddin Rumi

“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, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”

“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, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”

“Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.”

“Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.”

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”

“What you seek is seeking you.”

“What you seek is seeking you.”

“Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”

“Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”

“Love is the bridge between you and everything”

“Love is the bridge between you and everything”

“Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.”

“Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.”

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”

“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”

“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”

“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”

“My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”

“My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”

“Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.”

“Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.”

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”

“Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”

“Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”