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Creatures Are Cups. The Sciences And The Arts And All Branches Of Knowledge Are Inscriptions Around The Outside Of The Cups. When A Cup Shatters, The Writing Can No Longer Be Read. The Wine's The Thing! The Wine That's Held In The Mold Of These Physical Cups. Drink The Wine And Know What Lasts And What To Love. The Man Who Truly Asks Must Be Sure Of Two Things: One, That He's Mistaken In What He's Doing Or Thinking Now. And Two, That There Is A Wisdom He Doesn't Know Yet. Asking Is Half Of Knowing.

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Creatures Are Cups. The Sciences And The Arts And All Branches Of Knowledge Are Inscriptions Around The Outside Of The Cups. When A Cup Shatters, The Writing Can No Longer Be Read. The Wine's The Thing! The Wine That's Held In The Mold Of These Physical Cups. Drink The Wine And Know What Lasts And What To Love. The Man Who Truly Asks Must Be Sure Of Two Things: One, That He's Mistaken In What He's Doing Or Thinking Now. And Two, That There Is A Wisdom He Doesn't Know Yet. Asking Is Half Of Knowing.

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Every Need Brings In What's Needed. Pain Bears Its Cure Like A Child.

Love Is The Cure, For Your Pain Will Keep Giving Birth To More Pain Until Your Eyes Constantly Exhale Love As Effortlessly As Your Body Yields Its Scent.

Shut Your Eyes So The Heart May Become Your Eye, And With That Vision Look Upon Another World. If You Can Step Away From Your Need For Self-approval, All That You Do, Top To Bottom, Will Be Approved.

I Want Your Sun To Reach My Raindrops, So Your Heat Can Raise My Soul Upward Like A Cloud.

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The Sweetness And Delights Of The Resting-place Are In Proportion To The Pain Endured On The Journey. Only When You Suffer The Pangs And Tribulations Of Exile Will You Truly Enjoy Your Homecoming.

Be Like The Sun For Grace And Mercy. Be Like The Night To Cover Others' Faults. Be Like Running Water For Generosity. Be Like Death For Rage And Anger. Be Like The Earth For Modesty. Appear As You Are. Be As You Appear.

The Moment I First Heard Love I Gave Up My Soul, My Heart, And My Eyes.

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O, Great Spirit, Open My Eyes, Open Heart's Wings, Open My Ears To Your Voice In All Things.

You Have Been Walking The Ocean's Edge, Holding Up Your Robes To Keep Them Dry. You Must Dive Naked Under And Deeper Under, A Thousand Times Deeper. Love Flows Down. The Ground Submits To The Sky And Suffers What Comes. Tell Me, Is The Earth Worse For Giving In Like That? Do Not Put Blankets Over The Drum. Open Completely.

My Words Are Like A Ship, And The Sea Is Their Meaning. Come To Me And I Will Take You To The Depths Of Spirit.

Now Be Silent. Let The One Who Creates The Words Speak. He Made The Door. He Made The Lock. He Also Made The Key.

Where, With Your One Rose You Can Buy Hundreds Of Rose Gardens?

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What Is The Mirror Of Being? Non-being. Bring Non-being As Your Gift, If You Are Not A Fool.

When It's Cold And Raining,you Are More Beautiful.and The Snow Brings Meeven Closer To Your Lipsthe Inner Secret, That Which Was Never Born,you Are That Freshness, And I Am With You Now.i Can't Explain The Goings,or The Comings. You Enter Suddenly,and I Am Nowhere Again.inside The Majesty

There Is A Void In Your Soul, Ready To Be Filled. You Feel It, Don't You? You Feel The Separation From The Beloved. Invite Him To Fill You Up, Embrace The Fire.

The Miracle Of Jesus Is Himself, Not What He Said Or Did About The Future. Forget The Future. I'd Worship Someone Who Could Do That.

Every Love Outside Of His Love, Is Pain.

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It Is God's Kindness To Terrify You In Order To Lead You To Safety.

This Is Not A Day For Asking Questions, Not A Day On Any Calendar. This Day Is Conscious Of Itself. This Day Is A Lover, Bread, And Gentleness, More Manifest Than Saying Can Say.

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In Every Religion There Is Love, Yet Love Has No Religion.

Smiles Come Best From Those Who Weep.

The Agony Of Lovers Burns With The Fire Of Passion. Lovers Leave Traces Of Where They've Been. The Wailing Of Broken Hearts Is The Doorway To God.

Silence Is An Ocean. Speech Is A River. When The Ocean Is Searching For You, Don't Walk Into The River. Listen To The Ocean.

You Left Ground And Sky Weeping, Mind And Soul Full Of Grief. No One Can Take Your Place In Existence, Or In Absence. Both Mourn, The Angels, The Prophets, And This Sadness I Feel Has Taken From Me The Taste Of Language, So That I Cannot Say The Flavor Of My Being Apart.

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I Am Burning. If Anyone Lacks Tinder, Let Him Set His Rubbish Ablaze With My Fire.

Since You Are Not A Prophet, Follow The Way Taught By Prophets. Since You Are Not A King, Be A Loyal Subject To The King. Since You Are Not A Captain, Do Not Take The Helm Of The Ship. Since You Do Not Possess Every Skill, Have Partners In Your Business. Be As Pliant As Dough In The Hands Of Others, That You May Rise Well.

If You Want To Win Hearts, Sow The Seeds Of Love. If You Want Heaven, Stop Scattering Thorns On The Road.

Body Is Not Veiled From Soul, Neither Soul From Body, Yet No Man Hath Ever Seen A Soul.

Let Lovers Be Crazy, Disgraceful And Wild Those Who Fret About Such Things Aren’t In Love.

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Why Set Your Heart On A Piece Ofearth,seek Out The Source Which Shines Forever.

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Bring The Pure Wine Of Love And Freedom. But Sir, A Tornado Is Coming. More Wine, We'll Teach This Storm A Thing Or Two About Whirling.

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The Breeze At Dawn Has Secrets To Tell You. Don't Go Back To Sleep.

We Owe Thankfulness To God, Not Sour Faces.

How Should Spring Bring Forth A Garden On Hard Stone? Become Earth, That You May Grow Flowers Of Many Colors. For You Have Been Heart-breaking Rock. Once, For The Sake Of Experiment, Be Earth!

I Am A Bird Of God's Garden And I Do Not Belong To This Dusty World For A Day Or Two They Have Put Me Here In This Cage Of My Own Body I Did Not Come Here Of My Own I Will Not Return Of My Own To My Own Country.

I Saw Grief Drinking A Cup Of Sorrow And Called Out, 'it Tastes Sweet, Does It Not?' 'you've Caught Me,' Grief Answered, 'and You've Ruined My Business. How Can I Sell Sorrow, When You Know It's A Blessing?

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I Am Iron Resisting The Most Enormous Magnet There Is.

Even Though You're Not Equipped, Keep Searching: Equipment Isn't Necessary On The Way To The Lord.

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Lovers O Lovers, Lovers It Is Time To Set Out From The World. I Hear A Drum In My Soul's Ear Coming From The Depths Of The Stars. Our Camel Driver Is At Work; The Caravan Is Being Readied. He Asks That We Forgive Him For The Disturbance He Has Caused Us, He Asks Why We Travellers Are Asleep. Everywhere The Murmur Of Departure; The Stars, Like Candles Thrust At Us From Behind Blue Veils, And As If To Make The Invisible Plain, A Wondrous People Have Come Forth.

Look At These Worlds Spinning Out Of Nothingness. That Is Within Your Power.

I Learned That Every Mortal Will Taste Death. But Only Some Will Taste Life.

In Silence There Is Eloquence.

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There Came One And Knocked At The Door Of The Beloved. And A Voice Answered And Said, 'who Is There?' The Lover Replied, 'it Is I.' 'go Hence,' Returned The Voice; 'there Is No Room Within For Thee And Me.' Then Came The Lover A Second Time And Knocked And Again The Voice Demanded, 'who Is There?' He Answered, 'it Is Thou.' 'enter,' Said The Voice, 'for I Am Within.

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The Body Itself Is To Reveal The Light That's Blazing Inside Your Presence.

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Speak A New Language So That The World Will Be A New World.

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Remember God So Much That You Are Forgotten. Let The Caller And The Called Disappear; Be Lost In The Call.

Whatever You Know, Or Don’t - Only Love Is Real.

The World Is A Mountain, In Which Your Words Are Echoed Back To You.

This Silence, This Moment, Every Moment, If It's Genuinely Inside You, Brings What You Need. There's Nothing To Believe. Only When I Stopped Believing In Myself Did I Come Into This Beauty. Sit Quietly, And Listen For A Voice That Will Say, 'be More Silent.' Die And Be Quiet. Quietness Is The Surest Sign That You've Died. Your Old Life Was A Frantic Running From Silence. Move Outside The Tangle Of Fear-thinking. Live In Silence.

Give Your Life To The One Who Already Owns Your Breath And Your Moments.

The Heart Of The Matter Is Soul, Nothing Else.

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If You Have No Eyes, Do Not Walk Blindly; Take A Staff In Your Hand. If You Have No Staff Of Insight, Do Not Walk Without A Guide.

All Your Restlessness Is Out Of Your Desire For Stillness Just Desire Restlessly, Then, Love Will Fill And Still You. All Your Unhealthiness Is Out Of Your Desire For Health, Just Abandon Health, Then, Even Poison Will Heal You.

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There Is A Loneliness More Precious Than Life. There Is A Freedom More Precious Than The World. Infinitely More Precious Than Life And The World Is That Moment When One Is Alone With God.

You Think The Shadow Is The Substance.

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I Am Pure Light, Not Just A Fistful Of Clay. The Shell Is Not Me, I Came As The Royal Pearl Within. Look At Me Not With Outward Eye But With Inward Vision Of The Heart; Follow Me There And See How Unencumbered We Become.

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Very High, Very Grand, And Very Wise Is The Ocean Of God, The Water Of Life. You Went After The Form And Were Lead Astray. How Can You See It? You Abandoned The Truth. Sometimes It Is Named "tree," Sometimes "sun," Sometimes "ocean," Sometimes "cloud," One Thing From Which Scores Of Discoveries Arise, Its Slightest Definition An Everlasting Life.

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All We Really Want Is Love's Confusing Joy.

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Listen To The Sound Of Waves Within You.

Purify Yourself From The Attributes Of Self, So That You May See Your Own Pure, Untarnished Essence.

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Wash The Dust From Your Soul And Heart With Wisdom's Water.

Appear As You Are, Or Be As You Appear.

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Don't Stray From Your Heart's Intent.

The Light Which Shines In The Eye Is Really The Light Of The Heart.

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You Were Born With Wings, Why Prefer To Crawl Through Life?

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Your Calling My Name Is My Reply. Your Longing For Me Is My Message To You.

Go To The Well Of Deep Love Inside Each Of Us.

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