In the West, we reward ambition. From a Sufi perspective, it’s a disease. Rumi: “All of our suffering results from raw greed and from the desires of the self and its itching palate.”
The root of all evil
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In the West, we reward ambition. From a Sufi perspective, it’s a disease. Rumi: “All of our suffering results from raw greed and from the desires of the self and its itching palate.”
The more we grow into the Self, the less special we are. “Become nothing,” wrote Rumi, “and He’ll turn you into everything.”