Rumi Quotes About Envy

• 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

• Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away.

  Rumi

  Envy, Inward, Attention

  Jelaluddin Rumi (2005). “The Rumi Collection”, p.14, Shambhala Publications

• If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me;
  For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Garden, Feet

  "Reading Mystical Lyric: The Case of Jalal al-Din Rumi". Book translated by Fatemeh Keshavarz. Divan 1740:1-3, 1998.

• Your body is woven from the light of heaven. Are you aware that its purity and swiftness is the envy of angels and its courage keeps even devils away.

  Rumi

  Angel, Light, Envy

• I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.

  Rumi

  Garden, Envy

  "Reading Mystical Lyric: The Case of Jalal al-Din Rumi". Book translated by Fatemeh Keshavarz. Divan 1740:1-3, 1998.

• Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.

  Rumi

  Fall, Envy, Perfection

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