"When you are dead, seek for your resting place not in the earth, but in the hearts of men."
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"There goes a river dragging an ocean behind it."
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"Love asks us to enjoy our life For nothing good can come of death. Who is alive? I ask. Those who are born of love. Seek us in love itself, Seek love in us ourselves. Sometimes I venerate love, Sometimes it venerates me."
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"The moon stays bright when it doesn't avoid the night."
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"Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers."
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"Take sips of this pure wine being poured. Don't mind that you've been given a dirty cup."
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"Hungry, you're a dog, angry and bad-natured. having eaten your fill, you become a carcass; you lie down like a wall, senseless. At one time a dog, at another time a carcass, how will you run with lions, or follow the saints?"
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"If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill."
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"God gave you life and bestowed upon you his attributes; eventually you will return to him."
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"O Beloved, where is the Beloved?"
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"Knowing that conscious decisions and personal memory are much too small a place to live, every human being streams at night into the loving nowhere, or during the day, in some absorbing work."
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"Through love all that is bitter will be sweet."
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"I feel like the earth, astonished at fragrance borne in the air, made pregnant with mystery from a drop of rain."
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"Keep your intelligence white hot and your grief glistening“ so your life will stay fresh."
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"If you want to ascend like the Prophet to the sky of immortality, know this very well: Fasting is your Arabian stallion."
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"If you do not possess the staff of caution and discrimination, use the eyes of him who sees. If there is no staff of caution and discrimination, do not wander on the road without a guide."
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"No longer a stranger, you listen all day to these crazy love-words. Like a bee you fill hundreds of homes with honey, though yours is a long flight from here."
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"Don't insist on going where you think you want to go. Ask the way to the spring."
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"If I hold you with my emotions, you'll become a wished-for companion."
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"Turning toward what you deeply love saves you"
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