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There’s a moon in my body, but I can’t see it! A moon and a sun. A drum never touched by hands, beating, and I can’t hear it!

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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
When the flower opens, the bees will come.
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Flower Open Willing
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
Do not go to the garden of flowers! O friend! go not there; In your body is the garden of flowers. Take your seat on the thousand petals of the lotus, and there gaze on the infinite beauty.
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Beautiful Flower Friendship Garden Infinite
Be quiet in your mind, quiet in your senses, and also quiet in your body. Then, when all these are quiet, don’t do anything. In that state truth will reveal itself to you.
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Body Mindset Quiet Truth Yourself
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
Listen, my friend. He who loves understands.
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Friendship Listening Love Understand
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
Only in the heart can one experience the divine presence of truth.
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Divine Experience Heart Presence Truth
I do not quote from the scriptures; I simply see what I see.
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Myself Quote Scripture See Simplicity
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 essence of life is in remembering God.
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Essence God Life Remember
If you haven’t experienced it, it’s not true.
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Experience True 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
Seeking Why run around sprinkling holy water? There’s an ocean inside you, and when you’re ready you’ll drink.
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Drink Ocean Run Water 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

There’s a moon in my body, but I can’t see it! A moon and a sun. A drum never touched by hands, beating, and I can’t hear it!

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