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Rumi: “Do You Think I Know What I Am Doing?”

RumiDo you think I know what I’m doing?

That for one breath or half-breath I belong to myself?

As much as a pen knows what it’s writing.

Or the ball can guess where it’s going next.

— Rumi

From Open Secret: Versions of Rumi by John Moyne

 

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Jelaluddin Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century Persian poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic.  (Biographical information and picture are from Wikepedia)

Rumi: “Come, Come Whoever You Are”

RumiCome, come whoever you are.

Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving — it doesn’t matter.

Ours is not a caravan of despair.

Come, even if you have broken your vow a hundred times,

Come, come again, come.

                                                                 — Rumi

  • As quoted in Sunbeams : A Book of Quotations (1990) by Sy Safransky, p. 67

 

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Jelaluddin Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century Persian poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic.  (Biographical information and picture are from Wikepedia)