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Self Quotes by Rumi
- To become spiritual, you must die to self, and come alive in the Lord. Only then will the mysteries of God fall from your lips.…
- Purify yourself from the attributes of self, so that you may see your own pure, untarnished essence.
- Journey from the self to the Self and find the mine of gold. Leave behind what is sour and bitter and move toward the sweet.
- Let's ask God to help us to self-control for one who lacks it, lacks his grace.
- I honor those who try to rid themselves of any lying, who empty the self and have only clear being there.
- Say Bismillah, In the name of God, as the shaykh does with a knife when he offers an animal. Bismillah your old self to find…
- Come to the Root of the Root of your Self
- Love is reckless; not reason. Reason seeks a profit. Loves comes on strong, consuming herself unabashed. Yet in the midst of suffering love proceeds like…
- You have mourned over others; now sit down for a while and weep over your own self.
- Journeys bring power and love back into you. If you can't go somewhere, move in the passageways of the self. They are like shafts of…
- Humble living does not diminish. It fills. Going back to a simpler self gives wisdom.
- Students of cunning have consumed their hearts and learned only tricks; they've thrown away real riches: patience, self-sacrifice, generosity. Rich thought opens the way.
- Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of greed…
- Once you conquer your selfish self, all your darkness will change to light.
- If you wish to shine like day, burn up the night of self-existence. Dissolve in the Being who is everything.
- Humble yourself, you’ll grow greater than the world.Your Self will be revealed to you, without you.
- There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate thyself, do not…
- Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly.
- Remember God so much that you are forgotten.
- Till man destroys "self" he is no true friend of God.
More Self Quotes
- To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Life never was intended to be easy. Rather, it is a period of proving and growth. It is interwoven with difficulties, challenges,… — Richard G. Scott
- Forgive yourself and get over 'self hatred.' In life, everybody screws up I mean everybody. Some people blame themselves for stuff, when… — Pacifiersucker
- Our country is great because it is built on principles of self-reliance, opportunity, innovation, and compassion for others. — Ronald Reagan
- Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the… — Samuel Johnson
- Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense. — Arnold Bennett