For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself. Fr… - Rumi

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For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself.
From within, I couldn't decide what to do.
Unable to see, I heard my name being called.
Then I walked outside.

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Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi (جلال‌الدین محمد رومی) Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi (جلال‌الدین محمد بلخى)‎ (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273) was an Afghan philosopher, theologian, poet, teacher, and founder of the Mevlevi (or Mawlawi) order of Sufism; also known as Mevlana (Our Guide), Jalaluddin Rumi, or simply Rumi.

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Native Name: جلال‌الدین مُحمَّد بلخی

Alternative Names: Jalāluddīn Balkhī Rumī • Jalaladdin Rumi • Jalāluddīn Muḥammad Balkhī Rūmī • Jalāl ad-Dīn ar-Rūmī • Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Balkhī • Jalāladdīn Rūmī • Rūmī • Jalal-e Din Rumi • Jallal ed-Din Muhammad Balkhy • Mawlana Rumi • Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī • Jelaluddin Rumi • Mowlana • Mawlana • Maulana • Mevlevi • Mawlawi • Mevlana • Jalaluddin Rumi • Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi • Jalāl-ad-dīn Rūmī

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This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.
I don't plan it.
When I'm outside the saying of it,
I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.

"فى داخلنا يَصدَحُ صوتٌ
بأبياتٍ من "خِسرو" ، بمَقطَعٍ من "شِيرين" .
صوتٌ هادئٌ يَستَثيرُنا
وأحياناً كلماتٌ مثيرةٌ تَجعَلُنا هادئين ."

Raise your words, not your voice,
it is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself. From within, I couldn't decide what to do. Unable to see, I heard my name being called. Then… - Rumi

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