Rumi Quotes About Overcoming

• The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.

  Rumi

  Military, Hero, Enemy

  "Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance". Book by Rumi, translated by Camille Adams Helminsk and Kabir Helminski, 1990.

• He whose intellect overcomes his lust is higher than the angels; he whose lust overcomes his intelligence is less than an animal.

  Rumi

  Angel, Animal, Lust

  Jelaluddin Rumi (2005). “The Rumi Collection”, p.16, Shambhala Publications

• This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever thought to use language.

  Rumi

  Silence, Overcoming, Use

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.49, Penguin UK

• When you resolve to become pious, the devil in your nature cries out at you, "Tread not those paths, O confused one; distress and poverty will overcome you. You will be despised, let down by friends, you will regret it." Dread of the devil has bound their souls; the cries of the devil are the drover of the damned; the call of the Lord is a guardian of the saints.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Regret, Confused

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