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The purpose of labor is to learn; when you know it, the labor is over.

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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
All darkness vanished, when I saw the Lamp within my heart.
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Darkness Heart Myself
As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.
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Greatness Honey Wealth Zest
Sing such a song with all of your heart that you’ll never have to sing again.
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Heart Singing Yourself
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
I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.
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Blind City Mirrors Myself
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
What is found now is found then. If you find nothing now, you will simply end up with an apartment in the City of Death.
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Apartment Death End Finding Simplicity
The apple blossom exists to create fruit; when that comes, the petal falls.
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Creation Existence Fall Fruit
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
Go over and over your beads, paint weird designs on your forehead, wear your hear matted, long, and ostentatious, but when deep inside you there is a loaded gun, how can you have God?
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Design God Paint Weird Yourself
As the river surrenders itself to the ocean, what is inside me moves inside you.
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Move River Surrender Yourself
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
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
Listen, my friend. He who loves understands.
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Friendship Listening Love Understand
If it were possible to meet the Beloved while laughing and in a state of comfort, why should one suffer the anguish of separation?
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Anguish Comfort Laughter Possible Separate State Suffering White

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