Rumi’s full name is Molana Jalaluddin Rumi. The Turks at that time called the Eastern Roman Empire Rum, and Rumi means coming from the Eastern Roman Empire. His birthplace was in Balkh (located in today's Afghanistan), so he also had a name of Balkhi, a Tajik, but the name Rumi is more commonly used. His original name was Muhammad Jalaluddin, which was his title, which means religious saint. Later, he was also revered as Molavi, which means master or elder. The following 10 famous quotes:

1. Beyond the ideas of right and wrong, there is an open space.

I will meet you there.

When the soul lies on this grass,

This world is so perfect that it is beyond words. ——Rumi

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing

and rightdoing there is a field.

I'll meet you there.

< p> When the soul lies down in that grass

the world is too full to talk about.”

― Rumi

2. The wound is the light entering you Inner place. —— Rumi

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

― Rumi

3. Don’t act so small. You are the universe in ecstatic movement. —— Rumi

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

― Rumi

4. What you are looking for is also Looking for you. —— Rumi

“What you seek is seeking you.”

― Rumi

5. Your task is not to find love, but to find and Discover all the barriers you have built within yourself against it.

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

― Rumi

< p> 6. After I heard my first love story,

I started looking for you, not knowing how blind it was.

Lovers do not eventually meet somewhere.

They are always in each other's hearts. ——Rumi

“The minute I heard my first love story,

I started looking for you, not knowing

how blind that was.

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Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.

They're in each other all along."

― Rumi, The Illuminated Rumi

7. How can your mirror be polished if you are irritated by every friction? —— Rumi

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

― Rumi

8. Don’t be sad. Anything you lose will come back in another form. —— Rumi

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

― Rumi

9. Dance when you lose your way. Physical abuse. Dance if you've taken off the bandage. Dance in the middle of an argument. Dancing in your blood. Dance when you are completely free.

——Rumi

"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.”

― Rumi

10. You were born with a pair of wings, why do you prefer to crawl while living? —— Rumi

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

― Rumi