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When we stop measuring life by time,
We will know the mystery of timelessness,
Immortality, and the beauty of existence.
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Time is the ladder between the visible and invisible worlds,
With steps both visible and invisible, accessible and inaccessible,
Comprehensible and incomprehensible,
Steps for both ascending and descending.
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Time is the golden cup in which the water of life is kept.
It dies, drop by drop, if we spill it with careless hands.
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Our life is like a watch with two hands – earthly and heavenly.
We live our life on the edges of these hands.
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Life, grounded in ideals, is beautiful.
Tragedy and failure come when
These ideals are being injured.
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Self-admiration cuts a man in two and robs him of all naturalness.
Love makes him whole, since there is nothing more natural than love.
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Heavenly love settles in the heart
Where it warms, reconciles, and raises us up.
Earthly love lives on the tip of the tongue:
First it tempts with sweet songs,
And then it poisons with cold indifference.
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The fatherland begins with motherhood,
The mother begins with the family,
And the family begins with the father.
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In two there’s opposition.
In three – wholeness.
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To find is not as important as to save.
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Mind knows,
Soul contains,
Spirit fills.
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Beginning with the female, there is continuation;
With the male, confirmation.
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Genius turns up where man exceeds his human nature,
And in God’s nature finds himself.
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In search of harmony, we are compelled
By an imperfection and emptiness that demands filling.
Upon finding harmony, freedom is found.
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Love can save a man from the madness of the whole world.
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We can only fight against fraudulence with natural innocence.
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The more bitter the tears, the sweeter the consolation.
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Women’s mysteries emerge as men try to solve them.
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Sometimes it seems that we have avenged our lives,
But in reality, it’s on our very selves that we have taken vengeance.
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The surrounding world is a cup filled with the living water of life:
The taste depends on the lips tasting it.
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First become what you can,
Then what you want.
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Truth comes from the earth.
Harmony from the heavens;
When these two essences come together,
earthly beauty is sanctified by heavenly love.
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The rich man is not the one who possesses most
but the one who values most what he possesses.
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He loved himself so much that he never even came out of himself.
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The best job is like a cup:
The more you drink from it, the more you want its water.
The worst job is like the sea:
The farther you swim, the faster you want to reach land.
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Love unites a family for its enrichment,
Sinful desires confuse for its devastation.
Sinful love befuddles, devastation is its aim.
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