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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
The flute of the infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is love.
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Infinite Love Play Sound
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
All darkness vanished, when I saw the Lamp within my heart.
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Darkness Heart Myself
Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert, when all around you there is nothing but water!
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Death Desert Scream Water Yourself
I don’t think there is such a thing as an intelligent mega-rich person. For who with a fine mind can look out upon this world and hoard what can nourish a thousand souls.
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Intelligence Myself Nourish Soul Thinking
As the river surrenders itself to the ocean, what is inside me moves inside you.
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Move River Surrender Yourself
Do what you do with another human being, but never put them out of your heart.
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Heart Human Yourself
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
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
One love it is that pervades the whole world, few there are who know it fully: They are blind who hope to see it by the light of reason, that reason which is the cause of separation – The house of reason is very far away!
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Away Blind Light Love Reason World
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
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
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
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
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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