The Pharaoh and His Adviser

"How many times did Pharaoh soften and become submissive when he was hearing the Word from Moses?..From that incomparable Word, a rock would have yielded milk.
(Yet) whenever the King took counsel with Haman, who was his adviser, and whose nature was to hate,
Then Haman would say, "Until now you were a King, would you become, through deception, the slave of a wearer of rags?"
All that the Moses of sweet address built up in a hundred days, the adviser would destroy in one moment.
Your intellect is the adviser, and is overcome by sensuality; in the realm of your being is a thief who attacks you on the Way to God.
If someone holy gives you good advice, the intellect will artfully put those words aside,
Saying,"These words are not well founded: take heed, don't be carried away by them, they are not worth so much; come to yourself, be sensible; don't be crazed."
I have not seen anything but misery in the vile: if you have seen anything else, convey to them felicitations from me.
The King is as the spirit, and the adviser is as the corrupt intellect. When the angelic intellect becomes the adviser, it becomes a teacher...
The two eyes of the soul, are fixed on the end of things: it endures the pain of the thorn, for the sake of that Rose which does not fade and drop in autumn.
...flee from title and from name, and enter into reality.
If I find in the company, one who draws the discourse from me towards God, I, like the garden, will grow hundreds and thousands of roses.
And if at that time I find there the scoundrel who kills the discourse, the deep sayings will flee like a thief, from my heart."

Rumi (Vol. 4, 1240-1320)

Commentary: The mind, especially the corrupt sensual mind, is not a trustworthy adviser. Rumi, on the other hand, is almost always very good company...