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I follow the Way of Love, and where Love’s caravan takes its path, there is my religion, my faith.

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When you know yourself, your ‘I’ness vanishes and you know that you and Allah are one and the same.
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God Religious Wisdom Yourself
God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
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Animal Dream Dreams God Man Nature Plant Sleep Wake Up
None but God is loved in the exist- ent things. It is He who is manifest within every beloved to the eye of every lover – and there is nothing in the existent realm that is not a lover.
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Existence God Himself Love
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
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Desire God Heart Religious Travel
There was a time, when I blamed my companion if his religion did not resemble mine. Now, however, my heart accepts every form….Love alone is my religion.
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Acceptance Alone Blame Company Difference Heart Love Myself Religion Time
The ignorant one does not see his ignorance as he basks in its darkness; nor does the knowledgeable one see his own knowledge, for he basks in its light.
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Darkness Himself Ignorance Knowledge Light See
You are My sight, so have faith. You are My Face, so veil yourself.
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Face Faith Myself See Yourself
Each person is oriented toward a quest for his personal invisible guide, or he entrusts himself to the collective, magisterial authority as the intermediary between himself and Revelation.
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Authority Guide Himself Person Reveal Trust
My heart can take on any form: A meadow for gazelles, A cloister for monks, For the idols, sacred ground, Ka’ba for the circling pilgrim, The tables of the Torah, The scrolls of the Quran. My creed is Love; Wherever its caravan turns along the way, That is my belief, My faith.
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Belief Deep Faith Heart Idol Love Place Religious Thinking Wisdom
Beware of confining yourself to a particular belief and denying all else, for much good would elude you – indeed, the knowledge of reality would elude you. Be in yourself a matter for all forms of belief, for God is too vast and tremendous to be restricted to one belief rather than another.
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Belief God Goodness Knowledge Oneself Reality Restriction
My creed is LOVE; Wherever its caravan turns along the way, That is my belief, My faith.
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Belief Faith Love Myself Religion
Oh, Lord, nourish me not with love, but with the desire for love.
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Desire Difference God Love Prayer
While you are alive, your worldly self is like a collector of benefits from Allah’s bounties, which come to you from myriads of hands.
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I believe in the religion of Love, whatever direction its caravans may take, for Love is my religion and my faith.
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Believe Direction Faith Love Myself Religion
I follow the Way of Love, and where Love’s caravan takes its path, there is my religion, my faith.
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Faith Journey Love Myself Path Religion Way
Your personal nature seeks its paradise.
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Destiny Heaven Nature One Liner Seek

I follow the Way of Love, and where Love’s caravan takes its path, there is my religion, my faith.

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