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Do not praise yourself not slander others: There are still many days to go and any thing could happen.
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Day Humble Praise Slander
But if a mirror ever makes you sad you should know that it does not know you.
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Mirror Sadness Yourself
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
What is a holy person? The one who is aware of others’ suffering.
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Aware Oneself Person Suffering
I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days and God came to me.
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Day Feeling God Greatness Myself Pilgrimage
If you make love with the divine now, in the next life you will have the face of satisfied desire.
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Desire Divine Face Love Satisfaction
The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.
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Fools Instruction Waste White
Though One Brahman is the Cause of the Many. Behold but One in all things it is the second that leads you astray.
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Direction Journey Leadership Reason
All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
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Deep Known Ocean
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 flute of the infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is love.
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Infinite Love Play Sound
I’ve burned my own house down, the torch is in my hand.Now I’ll burn down the house of anyone who wants to follow me.
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Burn Follow Hands Home Myself
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
The river that flows in you also flows in me.
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Flow River Yourself
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
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

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