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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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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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Like a sculptor, if necessary, carve a friend out of stone. Realize that your inner sight is blind and try to see a treasure in everyone.

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When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame, abandoned by a fantasy. …People fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they are really tearing out their wings for the sake of an illusion.

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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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Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise. Whoever feels himself walking on the path, and refuses to praise—that man or woman steals from others every day—is a shoplifter! The sun became full of light when it got hold of itself. Angels only began shining when they achieved discipline. The sun goes out whenever the cloud of not-praising comes. The moment the foolish angel felt insolent, he heard the door close.

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The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel: eat less of it, for it is full of fire. Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest, but its smoke becomes visible in the end.

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Know the true definition of yourself. That is essential. Then, when you know your own definition, flee from it.

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You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don't know the value of your own soul, it's all foolishness.

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

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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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I have seen the king with a face of Glory, He who is the eye and the sun of heaven, He who is the companion and healer of all beings, He who is the soul and the universe that births souls.

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Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.

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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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Discipline enabled Heaven to be filled with light; discipline enabled the angels to be immaculate and holy.

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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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Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support.

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O tongue you are an endless treasure. O tongue, you are also an endless disease.

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A soul which is not clothed
with the inner garment of Love
should be ashamed of its existence.

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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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Don't knock on any random door like a beggar. Reach your long hand out to another door, beyond where you go on the street, the street where everyone says, "How are you?" and no one says How aren't you?

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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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The lamps are different, but the Light is the same. One matter, one energy, one Light, one Light-mind, endlessly emanating all things.

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People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterward repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left even farther from Reality than before.

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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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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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Pull the thorn of existence out of the heart! Fast! For when you do, you will see thousands of rose gardens in yourself.

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If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face.

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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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