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Know then that the body is merely a garment. Go seek the wearer, not the cloak.
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Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.
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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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I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.
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We gather at night to celebrate being human. Sometimes we call out low to the tambourine. Fish drink the sea, but the sea does not get smaller! We eat the clouds and evening light. We are slaves tasting the royal wine.
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Sit quietly and listen for a voice that will say, "Be more silent." As that happens, your soul starts to revive.
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The feelings trembled and flapped in his chest like a bird newly put in a cage.
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Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?
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Your sweetest blasphemy is the truest devotion. Through you a whole world is freed.
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It's your road, and yours alone. others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.
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There are as many ways of loving as there are people, and that wildflower variety is the great beauty of this dimension of existence.
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Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives.
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If you are seeking, seek us with joy For we live in the kingdom of joy. Do not give your heart to anything else But to the love of those who are clear joy, Do not stray into the neighborhood of despair. For there are hopes: they are real, they exist – Do not go in the direction of darkness – I tell you: suns exist.
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The soul is here for its own joy.
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When one sense perceives the hidden, the invisible world becomes apparent to the whole.
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You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
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God calls himself "Baseer" [Observant], so that the knowledge that He is watching you may keep you from sinning.
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You are the Truth from foot to brow. Now, what else would you like to know?
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Leave that which is not, but appears to be. Seek that which is, but is not apparent.
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I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way. Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.
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A strange passion is moving in my head My heart has become a bird which searches in the sky. Every part of me goes in different directions. Is it really so that the one I love is Everywhere?
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Each has to enter the nest made by the other imperfect bird.
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I wait with silent passion for one gesture one glance from you.
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You think you are alive because you breathe air? Shame on you, that you are alive in such a limited way. Don't be without Love, so you won't feel dead. Die in Love and stay alive forever.
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