"Until the juice ferments a while in the cask, it isn't wine. If you wish your heart to be bright, you must do a little work."
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"LOVE is what gives joy to giving joy."
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"Do thou smile like the rose at loss and gain; For the rose, though its petals be torn asunder, Still smiles on, and it is never cast down."
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"I was once like you, enlightened and "rational", I too scoffed at lovers, Now I am drunk, crazed, thin with misery. No one is safe! Watch out."
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"Sit with lovers and choose their state. Do not stay long with those who are not living in the heart."
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"Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart."
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"Feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise."
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"Give your weakness to one who helps."
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"If you dig a pit for others to fall into, you will fall into it yourself."
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"When lovers of life get ready to dance, the earth shakes and the sky trembles."
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"What will our children do in the morning if they do not see us fly?"
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"Smiles come best from those who weep."
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"Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey!"
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"My boat strikes something deep. At first sounds of silence, waves. Nothing has happened; Or perhaps everything has happened. and I am sitting in my new life."
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"I am like the heaven, like the moon, like a candle by your glow; I am all reason, all love, all soul, by your soul."
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"I'm in love! Your advice, what are they? Love has poisoned me! Your remedies, what are they? I hear them shout: "fast, Bind him feet!" But if my heart that has gone mad! Those strings on my feet What is the point?"
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"That moon which the sky never saw even in dreams has risen again"
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"There is a community of the spirit . . . Open your hands if you want to be held . . . Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking . . . Flow down and down in always widening rings of being."
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"I love myself...I love you. I love you...I love myself."
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"Innumerable changes of moods are yours, and they are uncontrolled by you. If you knew their origin, you would be able to dominate them. If you cannot localize your own changes, how can you localize that which formed you?"
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