Meet Rumi

You need to meet Rumi: consider his advice from objectively. Take a minute and acknowledge how beautiful his writing is.

Mawlānā Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī (مولانا جلال الدین محمد بلخى), also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī (جلال‌الدین محمد رومی), but known to the English-speaking world simply as Rumi,[1] (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century Persian[2][3] poet, Sunni[4][5] Islamic jurist, and theologian.

Rumi believed passionately in the use of music, poetry, and dance as a path for reaching God. For Rumi, music helped devotees to focus their whole being on the divine, and to do this so intensely that the soul was both destroyed and resurrected. It was from these ideas that the practice of "whirling" dervishes developed into a ritual form. His teachings became the base for the order of the Mevlevi which his son Sultan Walad organized. Rumi encouraged samāʿ, listening to music and turning or doing the sacred dance. In the Mevlevi tradition, samāʿ represents a mystical journey of spiritual ascent through mind and love to the Perfect One. In this journey, the seeker symbolically turns towards the truth, grows through love, abandons the ego, finds the truth, and arrives at the Perfect. The seeker then returns from this spiritual journey, with greater maturity, to love and to be of service to the whole of creation without discrimination with regard to beliefs, races, classes, and nations.

1. “We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust”
2. “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.”
3. “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.”
4. “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.”
5. "He is like a man using a candle to look for the sun”
6. “Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
7. “The ground submits to the sky and suffers whatever comes. Tell me, is the Earth worse for giving in like that ??”
8. “Now I am sober and there's only the hangover and the memory of love .”
9. “Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.”