"He is like a man using a candle to look for the sun"
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"There's a path from your HEART to mine."
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"You have 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. Love flows down. The ground submits to the sky and suffers what comes. Tell me, is the earth worse for giving in like that? Do not put blankets over the drum. Open completely."
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"The drum of the realization of the promise is beating, we are sweeping the road to the sky. Your joy is here today, what remains for tomorrow?"
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"You are dreaming your thirst when the water you want is inside the big vein on your neck."
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"The love religion is all that is written here."
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"This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives."
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"Flowers open every night across the sky, a breathing peace, and sudden flame catching."
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"Body is not veiled from soul, neither soul from body, Yet no man hath ever seen a soul."
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"Earth tries to work sorcery on us, saying Tomorrow, Tomorrow, but we outwit that spell by enjoying this now."
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"And even if this world burns up hidden harps will still play here."
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"The body's a mirror of heaven: Its energies make angels jealous. Our purity astounds seraphim. Devils shiver at our nerve."
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"I want to say words that flame as I say them, but I keep quiet and don't try to make both words fit in one mouthful."
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"You run back and forth listening for unusual events, peering into the faces of travelers. "Why are you looking at me like a madman?" I have lost a friend. Please forgive me."
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"How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire."
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"Your spirit is mingled with mine what touches you, touches me."
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"Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the heart."
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"No sickness worse than imagining thyself to be perfect can afflict thy soul."
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"The only thing that will keep you from finding that which you seek is calling off the search."
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"Sometimes we plan a trip to one place, but something takes us to another"
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