"You may learn to imitate a birdcall, but do you experience what the nightingale feels for the rose?"
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"Love rushed into my veins emptying me of myself. Now filled with the Beloved my only possession is my name."
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"Mount the stallion of love and do not fear the path, love’s stallion knows the way exactly. With one leap, Love’s horse will carry you home."
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"God (in His mercy) accepts false coin."
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"The undisciplined man doesn't wrong himself alone- he sets fire to the whole world."
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"As you live Deeper in the Heart, the Mirror gets clearer and cleaner."
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"Search, no matter what situation you are in. O thirsty one, search for water constantly. Finally, the time will come when you will reach the spring."
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"There comes a holy and transparent time when every touch of beauty opens the heart to tears. This is the time the Beloved of heaven is brought tenderly on earth. This is the time of the opening of the ROSE."
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"The middle path is the way to wisdom"
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"Are you searching for your soul? Then come out of your own prison."
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"Passion and desire bind your Heart. Remove the locks. Become a key, become a key . . ."
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"Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious."
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"If you can't smell the fragrance don't come into the garden of Love. if you are unwilling to undress don't enter into the stream of Truth. Stay where you are, don't come our way"
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"Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings.... Leave and don't look away from the sun as you go, in whose light you're sometimes crescent, sometimes full."
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"Botha swimmer and a drowned man are in the water; the latter is borne by the water and controlled by it, while the swimmer is borne along by his own power and of his own volition. Every movement made by the drowned man - indeed, every act and word that issue from him - comes from the water, not from him... The saints are like this. They have died before death."
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"The whole universe is contained within a single human being - you."
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"When it's cold and raining,you are more beautiful.And the snow brings meeven closer to your lipsThe inner secret, that which was never born,you are that freshness, and I am with you now.I can't explain the goings,or the comings. You enter suddenly,and I am nowhere again.Inside the majesty"
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"The breath of the flute player: does it belong to the flute?"
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"Respond to every call that excites your spirit."
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"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about."
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