The Lion took the Hare with him: they ran
together to the well and looked in.
The Lion saw his own image: from the water appeared
the form of a lion with a plump hare beside him.
No sooner did he espy his enemy than he left the Hare
and sprang into the well.
He fell into the pit which he had dug: his iniquity
recoiled on his own head.
O Reader, how many an evil that you see in others is
but your own nature reflected in them!
In them appears all that you are - your hypocrisy,
iniquity, and insolence.
You do not see clearly the evil in yourself; else you
would hate yourself with all your soul.
Like the Lion who sprang at his image in the water,
you are only hurting yourself, O foolish man.
When you reach the bottom of the well of your own nature,
then you will know that the wickedness is in you.
("The Evil in Ourselves" translated by R. A. Nicholson, Rumi, printed 2006)