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"The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "My Companions are as stars. Whomsoever of them you follow, you will be rightly guided." When a man looks at a star, and finds his way by it, the star does not speak any word to that man. Yet, by merely looking at the star, the man knows the road from roadlessness and reaches his goal."
"You've been walking the ocean's edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under, and deeper under, a thousand times deeper!"
"We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten our former states, except in early spring when we slightly recall being green again."
"Let your Teacher be Love itself."
"Enough of these phrases, conceit and metaphors, I want burning, burning, burning."
"Close both eyes to see with the other eye."
"This is not a day for asking questions, not a day on any calendar. This day is conscious of itself. This day is a lover, bread, and gentleness, more manifest than saying can say."
"Oh you, straying heart, just come! Oh you, aching liver, just come! If the path to the gate is closed, Take the way by the wall, but come!"
"I am burning. If anyone lacks tinder, let him set his rubbish ablaze with my fire."
"There are many winds full of anger, and lust and greed. They move the rubbish around, but the solid mountain of our true nature stays where it's always been."
"Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know."
"Live in the nowhere that you come from even though you have got an address Here."
"One drop of that ocean is Hope, and the rest is fear."
"What? Are you still pretending you are separate from the Beloved?"
"Oh my friend, all that you see of me is a shell, the rest belongs to love."
"We Are All the Same Listen to the reeds as they sway apart; Hear them speak of lost friends. At birth, you were cut from your bed, Crying and grasping in separation. Everyone listens, knowing your song. You yearn for others who know your name, And the words to your lament. We are all the same, all the same, Longing to find our way back; Back to the one, back to the only one."
"Drink from the presence of saints, not from those other jars."
"That's how you came here, like a star without a name. Move across the night sky with those anonymous lights."
"You are the mirror of divine beauty."
"Everything is soul and flowering."