"For that which is boundless in you abides in the mansion of the sky, whose door is the morning mist, and whose windows are the songs and the silences of night."
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"Love one another, but make not a bond of love."
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"And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God."
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"Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger. And if you grudge the crushing of the grapes, your grudge distils a poison in the wine. And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man's ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night."
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"Is not the beautiful moon, that inspires poets, the same moon which angers the silence of the sea with a terrible roar?"
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"Behold, I have reached the peak of the mountain and my spirit has taken flight in the heavens of freedom and liberation. I have gone far, far away, O children of my mother; the hills beyond the mists are now hidden from my view, the last traces of the valleys have been flooded by the ocean of serenity, and the paths and trails have been erased by the hand of oblivion. The roar of ocean waves has faded. I no longer hear anything but the anthem of eternity, which harmonizes with the spirit."
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"Am I less man because I believe in a greater man?"
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"You have your ideology and I have mine."
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"He that tries to seize an opportunity after it has passed him by is like one who sees it approach but will not go to meet it."
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"If we were to all sit in a circle and confess our sins, we would laugh at each other for lack of originality."
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"Sadness is but a wall between two gardens."
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"The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness."
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"Philosophy began when man ate the produce of the earth and suffered indigestion."
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"Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation."
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"God has given you a spirit with wings on which to soar into the spacious firmament of Love and Freedom. Is it not pitiful than that you cut your wings with your own hands and suffer your soul to crawl like an insect upon the earth?"
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"Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful. And though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy, you may find in them a harness and a chain. Would that you could meet the sun and the wind with more of your body and less of your raiment."
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"And alone and without his nest shall the Eagle fly across the sun."
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"Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today, made by past generations, was, before its appearance, a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman."
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"A fox looked at his shadow at sunrise and said, “I will have a camel for lunch today.” And all morning he went about looking for camels. But at noon he saw his shadow again-and he said, “A mouse will do."
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"All that spirits desire, spirits attain."
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