About Rumi
1207 – 1273
13th-century Persian poet, Islamic scholar, and Sufi mystic. His poetry, filled with themes of love, loss, and spiritual longing, continues to be widely read across cultures.
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“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there.”
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“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
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“And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
“Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”
“In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.”
“'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”