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Listen to me, my Friend! My beloved Lord is within.

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Within the body there is played Music unending, though without stringed instruments That music of the Word pervades the entire creation Who listens to it is freed from all illusion.
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Body Creation Illusion Instrument Listening Music Play
Listen to me brother! bring the vision of the Beloved in your heart.
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Beloved Heart Listening Myself Vision
If you want the truth, I’ll tell you the truth. Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you.
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Listening Reality Secret Truth Yourself
Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet.
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Body Place Solid Strong Yourself
Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain.
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Death Remain Wisdom World
I laugh when I hear the fish in the water is thirsty.
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Laughter Thirsty Water
A learned man’s knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn’t have control over his tongue.
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Control Himself Knowledge Learning Man
A diamond was laying in the street covered with dirt. Many fools passed by. Someone who knew diamonds picked it up.
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Cover Diamond Fools Known
Go over and over your beads, paint weird designs on your forehead, wear your hear matted, long, and ostentatious, but when deep inside you there is a loaded gun, how can you have God?
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Design God Paint Weird Yourself
The apple blossom exists to create fruit; when that comes, the petal falls.
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Creation Existence Fall Fruit
For millions of years you have slept. This morning, will you not wake?
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Morning Sleep Time Yourself
I am not a Hindu, Nor a Muslim, I am this body, a play Of five elements a drama Of the spirit dancing With joy and sorrow.
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Body Dance Element Joy Play Religion Sorrow Spirit
When the bride is one with her lover, who cares about the wedding party?
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Bride Care Lover Party
All darkness vanished, when I saw the Lamp within my heart.
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Darkness Heart Myself
The man who is kind and who practices righteousness, who remains passive against the affairs of the world, who considers all creatures on earth as his own self, he attains the Immortal Being; the true God is ever with him.
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God Himself Immortal Kind Man Passive Practice Right
My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.
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Flash Lightening Myself Oneself Sky

Listen to me, my Friend! My beloved Lord is within.

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