"if i can only recount the story of my life right out of my body flames will grow"
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"The moon has become a dancer at this festival of LOVE."
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"There's courage involved if you want to become Truth."
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"For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself. From within, I couldn't decide what to do. Unable to see, I heard my name being called. Then I walked outside."
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"You are as you are, an indescribable message on the air."
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"There is no salvation for the soul but to fall in Love. Only lovers can escape out of these two worlds. This was ordained in creation. Only from the heart can you reach the sky: The Rose of Glory can grow only from the heart."
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"Weep like the waterwheel, that green herbs may spring up from the courtyard of your soul. If you wish for tears, have mercy on one who sheds tears; if you wish mercy, show mercy to the weak."
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"May these vows and this marriage be blessed."
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"Actually, your soul and mine are the same. We appear and disappear with each other."
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"Through love scraps of copper are turned to gold."
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"Today I'm out wandering, turning my skull into a cup for others to drink wine from. In this town somewhere there sits a calm, intelligent man, who doesn't know what he's about to do!"
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"If you want what visible reality can give, you are an employee. If you want the unseen world you are not living with your truth. Both wishes are foolish, but you'll be forgiven for forgetting that what you really want is loves confusing joy."
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"Your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world."
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"Many have been led astray by the Qur'an: by clinging to that rope many have fallen into the well. There is no fault in the rope, O perverse man, for it was you who had no desire to reach the top."
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"The fluteplayer puts breath into a flute, and who makes the music? Not the flute. The Fluteplayer!"
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"Love is the ark appointed for the righteous, Which annuls the danger and provides a way of escape. Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition."
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"Open to me, so that I may open. Provide me your inspiration So that I might see mine."
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"Whenever Beauty looks, Love is also there."
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"I used to read the myths of love Now I have become the mythical lover"
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"But learn this custom from the flower: silence your tongue."
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