"You must lance an ulcer to heal it. You must tear down parts of an old building to restore it, and so it is with a sensual life that has no spirit in it."
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"The interpretation that makes you ardent and hopeful and active and reverent is the true one."
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"Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray."
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"You had better run from me. My words are fire."
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"There is no reality but God , says the completely surrendered sheik, who is an ocean for all beings."
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"Concentrate on the Essence, concentrate on the Light."
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"I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as an animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?"
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"Rush out in the rain to be soaked with the sky."
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"The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind."
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"For the water animals, the ocean is like a garden; for the land animals, it is death and pain."
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"We are the mirror as well as the face in it. We are tasting the taste this minute of eternity. We are pain and what cures pain both. We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours."
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"The world is a playground, and death is the night."
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"We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee; we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee."
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"Lightning, your presence from ground to sky, no one knows what becomes of me, when you take me so quickly."
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"New organs of perception come into being as a result of necessity. Therefore, O man, increase your necessity, so that you may increase your perception."
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"You have forgotten the One who doesn't care about ownership, who doesn't try to turn a profit from every human exchange."
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"Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge."
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"Make my heart, O heart of the universe, a divine bird that nests only on the throne of God."
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"Break your pitcher against a rock. We don't need any longer to haul pieces of the ocean around."
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"By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself."
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