Rumi Lust Quotations

There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate thyself, do not become a monk: chastity depends on the existence of lust.

Disharmony prevails when you confuse Lust with LOVE, while the distance between the two is endless!

People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterward repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left even farther from Reality than before.

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