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Why are we here? To become ourselves in you.

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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
Take a pitcher full of water and set it down in the water-now it has water inside and water outside. We mustn’t give it a name, lest silly people start talking again about the body and the soul.
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Body Name People Soul Start Water
The sun is within me and so is the moon.
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Moon Myself Sun
The river that flows in you also flows in me.
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Flow River Yourself
The savor of wandering in the ocean of deathless life has rid me of all my asking: As the tree is in the seed, so all diseases are in this asking.
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Myself Sick Tree Wander
Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.
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Admire Criticism Fake
Reading books everyone died, none became any wise. One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.
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Book Oneself Reading Wisdom
The truth of love is the truth of the universe: it is the lamp of the soul that reveals the secrets of darkness.
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Darkness Lamp Love Secret Soul Truth Universe
When the bride is one with her lover, who cares about the wedding party?
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Bride Care Lover Party
For millions of years you have slept. This morning, will you not wake?
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Morning Sleep Time Yourself
I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling.
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Forest Laughter Thirsty Water Yourself
The essence of life is in remembering God.
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Essence God Life Remember
If you haven’t experienced it, it’s not true.
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Experience True Yourself
Be quiet in your mind, quiet in your senses, and also quiet in your body. Then, when all these are quiet, don’t do anything. In that state truth will reveal itself to you.
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Body Mindset Quiet Truth Yourself
Nada is found within. It is a music without strings which plays in the body. It penetrates the inner and outer and leads you away from illusion.
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Body Finding Illusion Music Play
There is no river at all, and no boat, and no boatman. There is not even a rope to tow the boat, and no one to pull it. There is no earth, no sky, no time, no thing, no shore, no ford!
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Earth Illusion Oneself Reality River Time

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