"And if you are a rose, I am rose-shadow."
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"You think the shadow is the substance."
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"Flattery's fire is hidden. Its sweet taste is apparent, but the smoke is bound to come out at last."
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"There is little one can say about love. It has to be lived, and it's always in motion."
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"The result of my life is no more than three words: I was raw, I became cooked, I was burnt."
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"Join the community of saints and know the delight of your own Soul. Enter the ruins of your Heart and Learn the Meaning of Humility."
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"I would love to kiss you. The price of kissing is your life."
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"All loves are a bridge to Divine love. Yet, those who have not had a taste of it do not know!"
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"For only when faithfulness turns to betrayal And betrayal into trust Can any human being become part of the truth."
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"This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First, to let go of life. In the end, to take a step without feet; to regard this world as invisible, and to disregard what appears to be the self. Heart, I said, what a gift it has been to enter this circle of lovers, to see beyond seeing itself, to reach and feel within the breast."
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"What draws friends together does not conform to the laws of nature."
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"Open your arms if you want the Beloved's embrace."
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"Submit to love without thinking"
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"Everything has to do with loving and not loving."
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"I opened my arms to Love and Love embraced me like a Lover"
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"Love is an emotion. Totally silent and inexpressible with words."
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"They try to say what you are, spiritual or sexual? They wonder about Solomon and all his wives. In the body of the world, they say, there is a soul and you are that. But we have ways within each other that will never be said by anyone."
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"There is no way into Presence except through a love exchange."
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"O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now, Be all – worlds dissolve into your stainless endless radiance, Frail living leaves burn with your brighter than cold stares – Make me your servant, your breath, your core."
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"A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed, cut holes in it, and called it a human being. Since then, it's been wailing a tender agony of parting, never mentioning the skill that gave it life as a flute"
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