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Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi – 13th-century Persian poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, theologian and Sufi mystic.
Possibly the greatest poet of all time.
Words of such eloquence, spaciousness and depth.
“The most alive moment comes when
those who love each other meet
each other’s eyes and in what flows
between them then. To see your face
in a crowd of others, or alone on a
frightening street, I weep for that.
Our tears improved the earth. The time
you scolded me, your gratitude,
your laughing, always your qualities
increased my soul.
We sat inside the cypress shadow
where amazement…twined its
slow growth into us.”
…
“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.”
…
“Love drives you mad
from revelation to revelation
through ordeal after ordeal
until humble and broken
you are carried tenderly
into the heart of the rose.”
…
“The sun sets and the moon sets,
but they’re not gone.
Death is a coming together.
The human seed goes down into the ground
like a bucket,
and comes up with some
unimagined beauty.
Your mouth closes here,
and immediately opens with
a shout of joy
there!”
…
‘There is a voice that doesn’t use words.
Listen.”
Rumi