The beginning of pride and hatred lies in worldly desire, and the strength of your desire if from habit. When an evil… — Rumi Copy Share Image
You do not see clearly the evil in yourself, else you would hate yourself with all your soul. Like the lion who… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Know mankind well, don't degrade every man as evil, and don't exalt every man thinking he is good. He who cannot discover… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Being desirable means being comfortable with your own ambiguity. The most ambiguous reality is that we are flesh and spirit at the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
God works in mysterious ways. Things may look good outwardly, but there may be evil contained inside. Let no one be deluded… — Rumi Copy Share Image
And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice. — Rumi Copy Share Image
We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you. — Rumi Copy Share Image
“You’ve so distracted me, your absence fans my love. Don’t ask how. Then you come near. “Do not…” I say, and “Do not…,” you… — Rumi Copy Share Image
There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly. — Rumi Copy Share Image
