Rumi Quotes About Greed

• If you want money more than anything, you'll be bought and sold. If you have a greed for food, you'll be a loaf of bread. This is a subtle truth: Whatever you love, you are.

  Rumi

  Love You, Greed, Want

• There are many winds full of anger, and lust and greed. They move the rubbish around, but the solid mountain of our true nature stays where it's always been.

  Rumi

  Integrity, Moving, Wind

  Jelaluddin Rumi (2000). “Feeling the Shoulder of the Lion: Poetry and Teaching Stories of Rumi”, p.91, Shambhala Publications

• 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 for more, or out of fear of poverty and need.

  Rumi

  Self, Greed, Desire

  "Essential Sufism". Book by James Fadiman and Robert Frager, 1997.

• Greed makes man blind and foolish, and makes him an easy prey for death.

  Rumi

  Men, Greed, Blind

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