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All darkness vanished, when I saw the Lamp within my heart.
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Darkness Heart Myself
My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.
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Flash Lightening Myself Oneself Sky
When the bride is one with her lover, who cares about the wedding party?
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Bride Care Lover Party
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 Guest is being searched for, it is the intensity of the longing for the Guest that does all the work. Look at me, and you will see a slave of that intensity.
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Guest Intense Search Slave Willing
Listen to me brother! bring the vision of the Beloved in your heart.
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Beloved Heart Listening Myself Vision
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
Are you looking for the Holy One? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours.
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Holy Shoulder Yourself
Do what you do with another human being, but never put them out of your heart.
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Heart Human Yourself
Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet. Think about it carefully! Don’t go off somewhere else! just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
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Body Firm Imagination Place Solid Stand Strong Yourself
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
I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.
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Blind City Mirrors Myself
I do not quote from the scriptures; I simply see what I see.
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Myself Quote Scripture See Simplicity
Listen to me, my Friend! My beloved Lord is within.
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Friendship God Listening Myself
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
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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