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When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.
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You are the Essence of the Essence, The intoxication of Love. I long to sing Your Praises but stand mute with the agony of wishing in my heart !
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Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.
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I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.
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Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.
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Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.
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The heart is cooking a pot of food for you. Be patient until it is cooked
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My Beloved Know that my beloved in hidden from everyone Know that she is beyond the belief of all beliefs Know that in my heart she is as clear as the moon Know that she is the life in my body and in my soul
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I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.
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Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged
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Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.
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Poems are rough notations for the music we are.
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Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.
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Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.
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I have put the ear of my soul in the widow of your heart.
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It doesn’t matter that you’ve broken your vow a thousand times. Still come, and yet again, come.
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What the sayer of praise is really praising is himself, by saying implicitly, My eyes are clear. Likewise, someone who criticizes is criticizing himself, saying implicitly, "I can't see very well with my eyes so inflamed".
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My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there. This drunkenness began in some other tavern. When I get back around to that place, I’ll be completely sober.
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If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me.. For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.
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Come, come, whoever you are, come. Infidel, idolator, Wanderer, fire-worshipper, it doesn't matter, come. Ours is not a convent of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vow a hundred times, Come, come again.
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Though Destiny a hundred times waylays you, in the end it pitches a tent for you in Heaven. It is God's loving kindness to terrify you, in order to lead you to His Kingdom of safety.
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I am weary of personal worrying, in love with the art of madness.
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My heart rushes into the garden, joyfully tasting all the delights. But reason frowns, disapproving of the heart's bad manners.
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Your sweetest blasphemy is the truest devotion. Through you a whole world is freed.
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