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"Knowledge that is acquired is not like this. Those who have it worry if audiences like it or not. It's a bait for popularity. Disputational knowing wants customers. It has no soul... The only real customer is God. Chew quietly your sweet sugarcane God-Love, and stay playfully childish."
"Tie two birds together. They will not be able to fly, even though they now have four wings."
"You do not see clearly the evil in yourself, else you would hate yourself with all your soul. Like the lion who sprang at his image in the water, you are only hurting yourself, O foolish man. When you reach the bottom of the well of your own nature, then you will know that the vileness was from yourself."
"I honor those who try to rid themselves of any lying, who empty the self and have only clear being there."
"My head is bursting with the joy of the unknown. My heart is expanding a thousand fold."
"When you see anyone complaining of such and such a person's ill-nature and bad temper, know that the complainant is bad-tempered, forasmuch as he speaks ill of that bad-tempered person, because he alone is good-tempered who is quietly forbearing towards the bad-tempered and ill-natured."
"My heart is burning with love. All I can see is this flame. My heart is burning with passion, like waves on an ocean. I'm at home, wherever I am. And in the room of lovers, I can see with closed eyes the beauty that dances. Behind the veils, intoxicated with love, I too dance the rhythm of this moving world."
"Every object and being in the universe is a jar overflowing with wisdom and beauty,a drop of the Tigris that cannot be contained by any skin. Every jarful spills and makes the earth more shining, as though covered in satin... Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty."
"A circle of lovely, quiet people becomes the ring on my finger."
"Love is the cure, for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent."
"Every rose that is sweet-scented within, That rose is telling of the secrets of the Universal."
"Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you."
"Every moment, a voice, out of this world, calls on our soul, to wake up and rise."
"A soul which is not clothed with the inner garment of Love should be ashamed of its existence."
"There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes."
"The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires."
"Doing as others told me, I was Blind. Coming when others called me, I was Lost. Then I left everyone, myself as well. Then I found Everyone, Myself as well."
"Tender words we spoke to one another are sealed in the secret vaults of heaven. One day like rain, they will fall to earth and grow green all over the world."
"Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east."
"It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home."