"This world's existence is one night long. There's a great lively gathering that night, but some people sleep through it."
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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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"The Silk Worm I stood before a silk worm one day. And that night my heart said to me, "I can do things like that, I can spin skies, I can be woven into love that can bring warmth to people; I can be soft against a crying face, I can be wings that lift, and I can travel on my thousand feet throughout the earth, my sacs filled with the sacred." And I replied to my heart, "Dear, can you really do all those things?" And it just nodded "Yes" in silence. So we began and will never cease."
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"The rose's rarest essence lives in the thorns."
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"He has afflicted you from every direction in order to pull you back to the directionless."
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"The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire."
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"Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel - I am the carpenter of my own soul."
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"On the path of Love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of the Master Painter."
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"I learned that every mortal will taste death. But only some will taste life."
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"In this life many demolitions are actually renovations."
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"Every step I take is a blessing."
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"And don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous."
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"Deep in our Hearts, the Light of Heaven is shining."
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"Carry the burden smilingly and cheerfully, because patience is the key to victory."
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"How could you reach the pearl by only looking at the sea? If you seek the pearl, be a diver: the diver needs several qualities: he must trust his rope and his life to the Friend's hand, he must stop breathing, and he must jump."
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"There are many languages in the world; in meaning all are the same. If you break the cups, water will be unified and will flow together."
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"Prayer clears the mist and brings back peace to the Soul . . ."
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"Work on your stony qualities and become resplendent like the ruby. Practice self-denial and accept difficulty. Always see infinite life in letting the self die. Your stoniness will decrease; your ruby nature will grow. The signs of self-existence will leave your body, and ecstasy will take you over."
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"Truth lifts the heart, like water refreshes thirst."
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"Love is reckless; not reason. Reason seeks a profit. Loves comes on strong, consuming herself unabashed. Yet in the midst of suffering love proceeds like a millstone, hard surfaced and straight forward. Having died to self interest, she risks everything and asks for nothing. Love gambles away every gift God bestows. Without cause God gave us Being; without cause give it back again. Gambling yourself away is beyond any religion. Religion seeks grace and favor, but those who gamble these away are God's favorites, for they neither put God to the test nor knock at the door of gain and loss."
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