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Death is our wedding with eternity.
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You think because you understand 'one' you must also understand 'two', because one and one make two. But you must also understand 'and'.
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You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.
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Oh soul, you worry too much. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Of anything less, why do you worry? You are in truth the soul, of the soul, of the soul.
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The Water said to the dirty one, “Come here.” The dirty one said, “I am too ashamed.” The water replied, “How will your shame be washed away without me?
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Make your last journey from this strange world soar for the heights where there is no more separation of you and your home. God has created your wings not to be dormant as long as you are alive you must try more and more to use your wings to show you're alive
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Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart.
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Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open?
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I Lost Everything, I Have Found Myself.
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I would love to kiss you. The price of kissing is your life.
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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.
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The soul has been given it's own ears to hear things the mind does not understand.
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Every part of you has a secret language. Your hands and your feet say what you have done. Every need brings in what’s needed. Pain bears its cure like a child.
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Lovers move like lightning and wind. No contest. Theologians mumble, rumble-dumble, necessity and free will, while lover and beloved pull themselves into each other.
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And watch two men washing clothes, one makes dry clothes wet. The other makes wet clothes dry. they seem to be thwarting each other, but their work is a perfect harmony. Every holy person seems to have a different doctrine and practice, but there's really only one work.
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There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you?
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God is the only Friend for the Soul on the Way to God.
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The universe and the light of the stars come through me.
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Stars burn clear all night till dawn. Do that yourself, and a spring will rise in the dark with water your deepest thirst is for.
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When you lose all sense of self the bonds of a thousands chains will vanish. Lose yourself completely, return to the root of the root of your own soul.
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The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak.
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Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.
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Truth lifts the heart, like water refreshes thirst.
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Advice doesn't help lovers! They're not the kind of mountain stream you can build a dam across.
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