Rumi Quote

Learn from Ali how to fight
without your ego participating.
God's lion did nothing
that didn't originate
from his deep center.

"Ali in Battle" an account of Ali ibn Abi Talib's explanation as to why he declined to kill someone who had spit in his face as Ali was defeating him in battle, in Ch. 20 : In Baghdad dreaming of Cairo - The Essential Rumi (1995)