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I learned that every mortal will taste death, But only some will taste life.
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Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Don't argue or answer rationally. Let us die, and dying, reply.
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Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
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Like the shadow I am and I am not.
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Drum sound rises on the air, its throb, my heart. A voice inside the beat says, "I know you're tired, but come. This is the way.
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When a bird gets free, it does not go back for remnants left on the bottom of the cage.
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Travel brings power and love back into your life.
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Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty.
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Don’t grieve for what doesn’t come. Some things that don’t happen keep disasters from happening.
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If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
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A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed, cut holes in it, and called it a human being. Since then, it's been wailing a tender agony of parting, never mentioning the skill that gave it life as a flute
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I looked in temples, churches, and mosques. But I found the Divine within my heart.
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I am yours. Don't give myself back to me.
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You are the drop, and the ocean you are kindness, you are anger, you are sweetness, you are poison. Do not make me more disheartened. you are the chamber of the sun, you are the abode of venus, you are the garden of all hope. Oh, Beloved, let me enter.
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Friend, we're traveling together. Throw off your tiredness. Let me show you one tiny spot of the beauty that cannot be spoken. I'm like an ant that's gotten into the granary, ludicrously happy, and trying to lug out a grain that's way too big.
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Are you jealous of the ocean's generosity? Why would you refuse to give this love to anyone? Fish don't hold the sacred liquid in cups! They swim in the huge, fluid freedom.
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In the blackest of your moments, wait with no fear.
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I cannot sleep in your presence In your absence, tears prevent me you watch me my beloved on each sleepiness night and Only you see the difference
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Do not seek water, get thirst.
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True beauty is a ray. That springs from the sacred depths of the soul, and illuminates the body, just as life springs from the kernel of a stone and gives colour and scent to a flower.
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Learn the alchemy true human beings know. The moment you accept what troubles you've been given the door with open.
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When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth.
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I, you, he, she, we In the garden of mystic lovers, these are not true distinctions.
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Today I'm out wandering, turning my skull into a cup for others to drink wine from. In this town somewhere there sits a calm, intelligent man, who doesn't know what he's about to do!
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