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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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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
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
Men have always looked before and after, and rebelled against the existing order. But for their divine discontent, men would not have been men, and there would have been no progress in human affairs.
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Affair Divine Existence Human Man Order Progress Rebel
I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. I laugh when I hear that people go on pilgrimage to find God.
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Finding God Laughter People Pilgrimage Water
The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling.
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Counseling Need Professional Serious Thirsty Water
Listen to me, my Friend! My beloved Lord is within.
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Friendship God Listening Myself
Do not keep the slanderer away, treat him with affection and honor: Body and soul, he scours all clean, babbling about this and that.
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Body Himself Honor Soul Treat
Plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is, Believe in the Great Sound!
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Finding Greatness Sound Teacher Truth
Do you believe there is some place that will make thesoul less thirsty? In that great absence you will find nothing.
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Absence Believe Finding Greatness Place Soul Willing Yourself
Listen to your own Self. If you listen to that Self within, then you find the Truth.
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Finding Listening Truth Yourself
God, provide me with enough sustenance that my family is taken care of, that neither I remain hungry, nor does my guest go unfed.
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Enough Family God Guest Hungry Myself Provide
The sun is within me and so is the moon.
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Moon Myself Sun
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
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
Wear a crown of flowers on your head, let its roots reach your heart.
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Crown Flower Head Heart Reach Root Yourself
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

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