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Every fragile beauty, every perfect forgotten sentence, you grieve their going away, but that is not how it is. Where they come from never goes dry. It is an always flowing spring.
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My lips got lost on the way to the kiss - that's how drunk I was.
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If in the darkness of ignorance, you don’t recognize a person’s true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader.
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The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.
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Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you truly love. It will not lead you astray.
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Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent. Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
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I am not from east or west not up from the ground or out of the ocean my place is placeless a trace of the traceless I belong to the beloved
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I went inside my heart to see how it was. Something there makes me hear the whole world weeping.
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You run back and forth listening for unusual events, peering into the faces of travelers. "Why are you looking at me like a madman?" I have lost a friend. Please forgive me.
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This is how I would die into the love I have for you: As pieces of cloud dissolve in sunlight.
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Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.
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The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.
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Whatever I was looking for Was always you
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Love is the religion, and the universe is the book.
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Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out.
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Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.
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We may know who we are or we may not. We may be Muslims, Jews or Christians but until our hearts become the mould for every heart we will see only our differences.
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Heartsick, heartbroken – To know love is to know pain. What could be more common? Even so, each broken heart is so singular That with it we probe the divine.
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Love is the bridge between you and everything.
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Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. The entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.
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Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere?
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Your soul is so close to mine That what you dream, I know. … I know everything you think of: your heart is so close to mine!
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A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.
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On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day.
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