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“We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee; we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee.”
Source: 'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian
“There goes a river dragging an ocean behind it.”
Source: 'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian
“Passion makes the old medicine new:
Passion lops off the bough of weariness.
Passion is the elixir that renews:
how can there be weariness
when passion is present?
Oh, don't sigh heavily from fatigue:
seek passion, seek passion, seek passion!”
Source: 'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian
“I am part of the load not rightly balanced . . .”
Source: 'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian
“Those who don't want to change, let them sleep.”
Source: 'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian
“For hundreds of thousands of years I have been dust-grains floating and flying in the will of the air, often forgetting ever being in that state, but in sleep I migrate back.”
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“The intellectual quest is exquisite like pearls and coral, But it is not the same as the spiritual quest. The spiritual quest is on another level altogether, Spiritual wine has a subtler taste. The intellect and the senses investigate cause and effect. The spiritual seeker surrenders to the wonder.”
Source: 'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.”
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“Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.”
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“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
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“God has allowed some magical reversal to occur, so that you see the scorpion pit as an object of desire, and all the beautiful expanse around it as dangerous and swarming with snakes.”
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“Love is the cure, for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent.”
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“Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart.”
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“There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes.”
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“Your longing for ME is my message to you, All your attempts to reach ME, Are in reality MY attempts to reach you.”
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“Feeling lonely and ignoble indicates that you haven't been patient.”
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“Whenever Beauty looks,
Love is also there;
Whenever beauty shows a rosy cheek
Love lights Her fire from that flame.
When beauty dwells in the dark folds of night
Love comes and finds a heart
entangled in tresses.
Beauty and Love are as body and soul.
Beauty is the mine, Love is the diamond.”
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“Jesus was lost in his love for God.”
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“Let Go of Your Worries Let go of your worries and be completely clear-hearted, like the face of a mirror that contains no images. If you want a clear mirror, behold yourself and see the shameless truth, which the mirror reflects. If metal can be polished to a mirror-like finish, what polishing might the mirror of the heart require? Between the mirror and the heart is this single difference: the heart conceals secrets, while the mirror does not.”
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“Every object, every being...is a jar full of delight.”
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“If thou wilt be observant and vigilant, thou wilt see at every moment the response to thy action. Be observant if thou wouldst have a pure heart, for something is born to thee in consequence of every action.”
Source: 'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian
“Late, by myself, in the boat of myself, no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick. I try to stay just above the surface, yet I'm already under and living within the ocean.”
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“If you could leave your selfishness, you would see how you've been torturing your soul.”
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“Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say.”
Source: 'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian
“Last night you left me and slept your own deep sleep. Tonight you turn and turn. I say, 'You and I will be together till the Universe dissolves.' You mumble back things you thought of when you were drunk.”
Source: 'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian
“At every instant and from every side, resounds the call of Love:
We are going to sky, who wants to come with us?
We have gone to Heaven, we have been the friends of the angels,
And now we will go back there, for there is our country.”
Source: 'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian
“A moment of happiness, you and I sitting on the verandah, apparently two, but one in soul, you and I. We feel the flowing water of life here, you and I, with the garden's beauty and the birds singing. The stars will be watching us, and we will show them what it is to be a thin crescent moon. You and I unselfed, will be together, indifferent to idle speculation, you and I. The parrots of heaven will be cracking sugar as we laugh together, you and I. In one form upon this earth, and in another form in a timeless sweet land.”
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“Your calling my name is My reply. Your longing for Me is My message to you.”
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“Be with those who help your being.”
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“I've said before that every craftsman searches for what's not there to practice his craft.”
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“This phantom world gave you false signs But you turned from the illusion and journeyed to the land of truth.”
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“Those who don't feel this love pulling them like a river, those who don't drink dawn like a cup of springwater or take in sunset like a supper, those who don't want to change, let them sleep.”
Source: 'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian
“If you want what visible reality can give, you are an employee.
If you want the unseen world you are not living with your truth.
Both wishes are foolish, but you'll be forgiven for forgetting that what you really want is loves confusing joy.”
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“When someone mentions the gracefulness of the night sky, climb up on the roof and dance and say, like this?”
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“The armies of the day have chased the army of the night, Heaven and earth are filled with purity and light.”
Source: 'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian
“If you don't try to fly and so break yourself apart, you will be broken open by death, when it's too late for all you could become.”
Source: 'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian
“Be with those who help your being. Don't sit with indifferent people, whose breath comes cold out of their mouths.”
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“Our death is our wedding with eternity.”
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“We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat!”
Source: 'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian
“The here-and-now mountain
is a tiny piece of a piece of straw
blown off into emptiness.”
Source: 'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian
“Don't insist on going where you think you want to go. Ask the way to the spring.”
Source: 'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian
“Whenever Beauty looks, Love is also there.”
Source: 'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian
“Seek passion, seek passion, seek passion!”
Source: 'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian
“The drum of the realization of the promise is beating, we are sweeping the road to the sky. Your joy is here today, what remains for tomorrow?”
Source: 'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian
“The wine of this fleeting world caused your head to ache.”
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“Free of who I was, free of presence, free of dangerous fear, hope, free of mountainous wanting.”
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“Any wine will get you high. Judge like a king, and choose the purest, the ones unadulterated with fear, or some urgency about "what's needed."”
Source: 'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian
“Drink from the presence of saints, not from those other jars.”
Source: 'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian