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Harlots shall be made pure by their own tears. But you publicans shall be held down by the chains of your own judgement.

Let ignorance reproduce itself until it is weary of its own offspring.

The silence of the envious is too noisy.

Which of you would be silent - when all else sings together in unison?

Life is the mistress to be wooed.

History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.

Rob a neighbour with a smile.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

Be patient, for it is from doubt that knowledge is born.

Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment.

Braving obstacles and hardships is braver than retreat to tranquility.

Your body is the harp of the soul.

It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling.

Love that is cleansed by tears will remain eternally pure and beautiful.

To be closer to god, be closer to people.

The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.

How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.

The love of a parent for a child is the love that should grow towards separation.

The biggest thing in today's sorrow is the memory of yesterday's joy.

You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done.

The subtlest beauties in our life are unseen and unheard.

If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.

Have you not heard of the man who was digging in the earth for roots and found a treasure?

Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt.

God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them.

Humanity is a river of light running from the ex-eternity to eternity.

Beauty shall rise with the dawn from the east.

I want every image to be the beginning of an unseen image.

The highest virtue here may be least in another world.

Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians.

He who denies his heritage, has no heritage

Love is a gracious host to his guests though to the unbidden his house is a mirage and a mockery.

Thinking is always the stumbling stone to poetry.

If it were not for guests all houses would be graves.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

The power to Love is God's greatest gift to man, For it never will be taken from the Blessed one who loves.

Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.

The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.

Remember, one just man causes the Devil greater affliction than a million blind believers.

He who passes not his days in the realm of dreams is the slave of the days.

In every aspect of the day Jesus was aware of the Father. He beheld Him in the clouds and in the shadows of the clouds that pass over the earth.

Make me, oh God, the prey of the Lion, ere you make the rabbit my prey

Hate is a dead thing. Who of you would be a tomb?

Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.

Some think I wink at them when I shut my eyes to avoid their sight.

The longing for paradise is paradise itself.

Philosophy began when man ate the produce of the earth and suffered indigestion.

If you would behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one.

Many are the places of worship, but few indeed are those who worship in Spirit and in truth.

Disagreement may be the shortest cut between two minds.

The thirst of soul is sweeter than the wine of material things, and the fear of spirit is dearer than the security of the body.

When you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they're actually beautiful.

All things in this vast universe exist in you, with you, and for you.

What of the old serpent who cannot shed his skin, and calls all others naked and shameless?

Only once have I been made mute. It was when a man asked me, 'Who are you?'

He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life.

Darkness is dawn not yet born.

I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes.

Inspiration is in seeing a part of the whole with the part of the whole in you.

If winter should say, 'Spring is in my heart,' who would believe winter?

Trickery succeeds sometimes, but it always commits suicide.

Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.

When a man's hand touches the hand of a woman, they both touch the heart of eternity.

Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.

The ageless melody, unheard, heals; the healing vision, unseen, leads; the true leaders, immortal, know ...

If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.

To barter and lose is better than not to go forth.

He who listens to truth is not less than he who utters truth.

Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.

Like the seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

Virtue tested: Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart?

The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

A hermit is one who renounces the world of fragments that he may enjoy the world wholly and without interruption.

Yesterday is ever jealous of ... tomorrow.

Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and the tumult of a thousand men.

Sayings remain meaningless until they are embodied in habits.

When you have grasped a problem clearly, face it with resolution, for that is the way of the strong.

The saint and the sinner are twin brothers ... one was born but the moment before the other.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody.

Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.

Let passion fill your sails, but let reason be your rudder.

Inspiration will always sing; inspiration will never explain.

Philosophy's work is finding the shortest path between two points.

The truly just is he who feels half guilty of your misdeeds.

As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease.

In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song.

I do not want you to hear that I LOVE you, but I want you to feel it without me having to say.

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

Sit by me, my beloved, and listen to my heart; smile, for your happiness is a symbol of our future.

Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life.

Love has the power that dispels death; charm that conquers the enemy.

He was gentle, like a man mindful of his own strength. In my dreams I beheld the kings of the earth standing in awe in His presence.

Marriage is like a temple resting on two pillars. If they come too close to each other the temple will collapse.

When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.