"Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun."
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"Love is a river. Drink from it."
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"If your knowledge of fire has been turned to certainty by words alone, then seek to be cooked by the fire itself. Don't abide in borrowed certainty. There is no real certainty until you burn; if you wish for this, sit down in the fire."
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"In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal."
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"Ways of worshipping are not to be ranked as better or worse than one another . . . It's all praise, and it's all right."
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"Your way begins at the other side. Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape. Walk out like someone suddenly born into color. Do it now."
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"Remember God so much that you are forgotten. Let the caller and the called disappear; be lost in the Call."
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"To Love is to reach God."
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"Snake's poison is life to the snake; it is in relation to man that it means "death."
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"Be like a river in generosity and giving help. Be like a sun in tenderness and pity. Be like night when covering other's faults. Be like a dead when furious and angry. Be like earth in modesty and humbleness. Be like a sea in tolerance. Be as you are or as you look like."
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"Poems are rough notations for the music we are."
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"We are even higher than the heavens, we are greater than angels; Why should we not transcend both? Our lodging-place is Majesty."
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"What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch it with food and other ego-satisfactions."
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"God picks up the reed-flute world and blows. Each note is a need coming through one of us, a passion, a longing pain. Remember the lips where the wind-breath originated, and let your note be clear. Don't try to end it. Be your note."
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"It is God's kindness to terrify you in order to lead you to safety."
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"You rave about the Holy Place (Masjid al-Haram) and say you've visited God's garden but where is your bunch of flowers? There is some merit in the suffering you have endured but what a pity you have not discovered the Makkah thats inside"
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"I am the servant of the Qur'an as long as I have life. I am the dust on the path of Muhammad, the Chosen One."
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"If something makes you happy in this world, you should think of what will happen to you if that thing were taken away."
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"Purify yourself from the attributes of self, so that you may see your own pure, untarnished essence."
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"Wherever water flows, life flourishes: wherever tears fall, Divine mercy is shown."
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