"Love is life sharing, not for hurt, Love is alive both not ambiguous. Love is whole life, not an affair."
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"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. Doubt is a foundling unhappy and astray, and though his own mother who gave him birth should find him and enfold him, he would withdraw in caution and in fear."
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"They say: 'If a man knew himself, he would know all mankind.' I say: 'If a man loved mankind, he would know something of himself."
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"We who love Him beheld Him with these our eyes which He made to see; and we touched Him with these our hands which He taught to reach forth."
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"He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly."
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"And how shall you punish those whose remorse is already greater than their misdeeds?"
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"Have you not heard of the man who was digging in the earth for roots and found a treasure?"
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"Love is quivering happiness."
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"To barter and lose is better than not to go forth."
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"He who listens to truth is not less than he who utters truth."
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"I have passed the mountain peak and my soul is soaring in the firmament of Complete and unbounded freedom; I am in comfort, I am in peace."
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"Who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride, that you may see their worth naked and their pride unabashed? See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver, and an instrument of giving."
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"Your house is your larger body. It grows in the sun and sleeps in the stillness of the night; and it is not dreamless. Does not your house dream, and dreaming, leave the city for grove or hilltop?"
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"For what is prayer but the expansion of your self into the living ether?"
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"Beauty shall rise with the dawn from the east."
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"Virtue tested: "Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart?"
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"He was gentle, like a man mindful of his own strength. In my dreams I beheld the kings of the earth standing in awe in His presence."
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"And let to-day embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing."
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"Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names."
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"And that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space."
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