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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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This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.

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And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.

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

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

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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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Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives.

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When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.

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

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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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May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.

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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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The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle.

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Giving thanks for abundance is sweeter than the abundance itself...

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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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Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away.

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When the rose is gone and the garden faded you will no longer hear the nightingale's song. The Beloved is all; the lover just a veil. The Beloved is living; the lover a dead thing. If love withholds its strengthening care, the lover is left like a bird without care, the lover is left like a bird without wings. How will I be awake and aware if the light of the Beloved is absent? Love wills that this Word be brought forth.

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As for us, He has appointed the job of permanent unemployment. If he wanted us to work, after all, He would not have created this wine. With a skinfull of this, Sir, would you rush out to commit economics?

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He whose intellect overcomes his desire is higher than the angels; he whose desire overcomes his intellect is less than an animal.

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

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Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings.... Leave and don't look away from the sun as you go, in whose light you're sometimes crescent, sometimes full.

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