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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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Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
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Imagination Stand Throw Yourself
Stand firm in that which you are.
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Firm Stand Yourself
When you feel most alive, find out why, This is one guest you won’t greet twice.
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Alive Feeling Guest Yourself
If you haven’t experienced it, it’s not true.
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Experience True Yourself
If you don’t break your ropes while you’re alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?
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Alive Break Ghost Willing
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
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
Love does not grow on trees or brought in the market, but if one wants to be “LOVED” one must first know how to give (unconditional) LOVE.
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Growth Love Market Oneself
Path presupposes distance; If He be near, no path needest thou at all. Verily it maketh me smile To hear of a fish in water athirst!
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Distance Myself Smile Water
Music without words means leaving behind the mind. And leaving behind the mind is meditation. Meditation returns you to the source. And the source of all is sound.
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Leaving Mindset Music Source Word 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
The stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail.
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Service Stone Worship
Don’t open your diamonds in a vegetable market. Tie them in bundle and keep them in your heart, and go your own way.
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Diamond Heart Market Open Way Yourself
Lift the veil that obscures the heart, and there you will find what you are looking for.
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Finding Heart Willing Yourself
Faith,Waiting in the heart of a seed, Promises a miracle of life which cannot prove at once.
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Evidence Faith Heart Miracle Promise Wait
As long as a human being worries about when he will die, and what he has that is his, all of his works are zero. When affection for the I-creature and what it owns is dead, then the work of the Teacher is over.
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Affection Creature Death Human Myself Teacher Worry
When the flower opens, the bees will come.
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Flower Open Willing
Listen to me brother! bring the vision of the Beloved in your heart.
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Beloved Heart Listening Myself Vision
As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.
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Greatness Honey Wealth Zest
The world will die, but I shall not die.If God dies, then I will die;If he does not die, then why should I die?
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Death God Himself Myself World
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
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
The Beloved is inside you and also inside me. You know the tree is hidden inside the seed. Let your arrogance go. None of us has gone far. Inside love there is more power than we realize.
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Arrogant Beloved Hide Love Power Realize Tree Yourself
The river that flows in you also flows in me.
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Flow River 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
I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.
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Blind City Mirrors Myself
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

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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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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