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Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle; Love is the work of wrestlers. The one who becomes a servant of lovers is really a fortunate sovereign. Don't ask anyone about Love; ask Love about Love. Love is a cloud that scatters pearls.

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You've come to know the fortunate and the inauspicious stars, but you don't know whether you yourself are fortunate or lucky.

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Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun.

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I am burning. If anyone lacks tinder, let him set his rubbish ablaze with my fire.

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My friend, you thought you lost Him; that all your life you've been separated from Him. Filled with wonder, you've always looked outside for Him, and haven't searched within your own house.

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The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love.

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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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Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad.

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Take someone who doesn't keep score, who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he's free.

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We should ask God to help us toward manners. Inner gifts do not find their way to creatures without just respect.

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For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself. From within, I couldn't decide what to do. Unable to see, I heard my name being called. Then I walked outside.

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Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.

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Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers.

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Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.

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When LOVE for GOD has been doubled in your HEART,
there is no doubt that GOD has love for YOU.

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Ground yourself, strip yourself down, To blind loving Silence

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Consider how wool is turned into an elegantly designed carpet by coming into contact with an intelligent person.

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Know, son, that everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty, the universe is a drop of the 'Tigris of His beauty, this beauty was a Hidden Treasure so full it burst open and made the earth more radiant than the heavens.

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Be drunk with Love, for Love is all that exists. Where is intimacy found if not in the give and take of Love.

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There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.

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The undisciplined man doesn't wrong himself alone- he sets fire to the whole world.

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The spirit is so near that you can't see it!
But reach for it... don't be a jar, full of water, whose rim is always dry. Don't be the rider who gallops all night and never sees the horse that is beneath him.

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Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean. Listen, O drop, bestow upon yourself this honor, and in the arms of the Sea be secure. Who indeed should be so fortunate? An Ocean wooing a drop! In God's name, in God's name, sell and buy at once! Give a drop, and take this Sea full of pearls.

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Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives.

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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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