Occupation: Poet Birth: September 30, 1207 Death: December 17, 1273
people want you to be happy, don't keep serving them your pain.
I come to YOU without ME, come to ME without YOU..
What you have despised in yourself as a thorn opens into a rose..
Although you see the pit, you cannot avoid it..
And if you are a rose, I am rose-shadow..
Many have been led astray by the Qur'an: by clinging to that rope many have fallen into the well. There is no fault in the rope, O perverse man, for ….
Dancing is when you rise above both worlds, tearing your heart to pieces & giving up your soul.
The Ripe FigNow that You live here in my chest,anywhere we sit is a mountaintop.And those other images,which have enchanted peoplelike porcelain doll….
Let people catch something from your heart that will cause no discomfort, but help them to sing..
Keep digging your well. Water is there somewhere..
Don't be the rider who gallops all nightand never sees the horse that is beneath him.
You have been a prisoner of a little pond I am the ocean and its turbulent flood Come merge with me leave this world of ignorance.
I cannot sleep in your presence In your absence, tears prevent me you watch me my beloved on each sleepiness night and Only you see the difference.
Ways of worshipping are not to be ranked as better or worse than one another . . . It's all praise, and it's all right..
There's no one with intelligence in this town except that man over there playing with the children, the one riding the stick horse. He has keen, fier….
You the one in all, say who I am. Say I am you..
Idle man, chases after fairy tales..
That hurt we embrace becomes joy. Call it to your arms where it can change..
Your real "country" is where you're heading, not where you are..
For those who realize that everything is from God, everything is the same..
It is Love and the Lover that live eternally - Don't lend your heart to anything else; all else is borrowed..