Rumi Quotes About Character

• Indeed envy is a defect; worse than any other.

  Rumi

  Character, Envy, Defects

• On the way there is no harder pass than this: fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.

  Rumi

  Character, Envy, Doe

• The ear participates, and helps arrange marriages; the eye has already made love with what it sees. The eye knows pleasure, delights in the body's shape: the ear hears words that talk about all this. When hearing takes place, character areas change; but when you see, inner areas change. If all you know about fire is what you have heard see if the fire will agree to cook you! Certain energies come only when you burn. If you long for belief, sit down in the fire! When the ear receives subtly; it turns into an eye. But if words do not reach the ear in the chest, nothing happens.

  Rumi

  Character, Eye, Fire

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.46, Shambhala Publications

• If reason dominates in man, he rises higher than angels. If lust overpowers man, he descends lower than the beast.

  Rumi

  Character, Angel, Men

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