Rumi Quotes About Ego

• Your worst enemy is hiding within yourself, and that enemy is your nafs or false ego.

  Rumi

  Worst Enemy, Ego, Nafs

• I long to escape the prison of my ego and lose myself in You.

  Rumi

  Long, Ego, Prison

• The Ego is a veil between humans and God’.” “In prayer all are equal.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Prayer, Ego

• If your guidance is your ego, don't rely on luck for help. you sleep during the day and the nights are short. By the time you wake up your life may be over.

  Rumi

  Sleep, Night, Ego

• The illuminated life can happen now, in the moments left. Die to your ego, and become a True Human Being.

  Rumi

  Trust, Ego, Moments

  Jelaluddin Rumi (2000). “Feeling the Shoulder of the Lion: Poetry and Teaching Stories of Rumi”, p.31, Shambhala Publications

• Love means to reach for the sky
  and with every breath to tear a
  hundred veils. Love means to step
  away from the ego, to open the eyes
  of inner vision and not to take this
  world so seriously

  Rumi

  Mean, Eye, Sky

• What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch it with food and other ego-satisfactions.

  Rumi

  Drinking, Mean, Ego

• Kill the cow of your ego as quickly as you can, so that your inner spirit can come to life and attain true awareness.

  Rumi

  Ego, Cows, Spirit

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