"Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation."
"When you resolve to become pious, the devil in your nature cries out at you, "Tread not those paths, O confused one; distress and poverty will overcome you. You will be despised, let down by friends, you will regret it." Dread of the devil has bound their souls; the cries of the devil are the drover of the damned; the call of the Lord is a guardian of the saints."
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Source: The Enlightened Mind: An Anthology of Sacred Prose. Book edited by Stephen Mitchell, 1991.
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