Rumi Quotes About Envy
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Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.
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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.
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Indeed envy is a defect; worse than any other.
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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.
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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.
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I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.
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On the way there is no harder pass than this: fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.
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