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Each night the moon kisses secretly the lover who counts the stars
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When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.
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Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.
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There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope.
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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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As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.
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Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!
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Try something different. Surrender.
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Although you see the pit, you cannot avoid it.
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You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.
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Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.
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If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.
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You have within you more love than you could ever understand.
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Sit, be still, and listen, because you're drunk and we're at the edge of the roof.
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Open to me, so that I may open. Provide me your inspiration So that I might see mine.
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Come to the orchard in Spring. There is light and wine, and sweethearts in the pomegranate flowers. If you do not come, these do not matter. If you do come, these do not matter.
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Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.
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Wherever you stand, be the Soul of that place.
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Whatever purifies you is the right path, I will not try to define it.
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Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.
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There are no edges to my loving now.
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This world hurts my head with its answers. I would burn if I had a choice.
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Into this new love, die your way begins on the other side become the sky take an axe to the prison wall, escape walk out like someone suddenly born into color do it now.
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Do not see yourself as a body of clay, see yourself as a mirror reflecting the divine beauty.
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