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A consciousness without origin, Not born in time nor begotten here below. I am that which was, is and ever shall be, A jewel in the crown of the Divine Self, A star in the firmament of the luminous One.
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Neither this body am I, nor soul, Nor these fleeting images passing by, Nor concepts and thoughts mental images, Nor yet sentiments and the psyches labyrinth. Who then am I?
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Go die, O man of honor, before you die, So that you will not suffer the pangs of death, Die in such a way as to enter the abode of light, Not the death that places you in the grave.
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For the sage every tree is a reflection of the tree of Paradise, every mountain a symbol of transcendence, the water of every flowing stream a symbol of Divine Mercy, the wind a mark of the Spirit.
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The whole of the material universe, no matter how extended its physical dimensions might be, is like a speck of dust before the grandeur of the world of the Spirit.
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In reality God is the light with which we see all things. That is why we cannot see Him in the ordinary sense.
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To love God fully is to possess complete freedom from every other bond, and since God is absolute and infinite, it is to experience absolute and infinite freedom.
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Countless souls in traditional societies have observed evil and misery surrounding them, but such experiences have hardly ever drawn Muslims, Hindus, or Buddhists (to name just a few examples) away from religion and the world of faith.
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To speak of a world without evil is to fail to understand what the world is and to confuse the Absolute and the relative, the Essence and its veils, or to use the language of Hinduism, Atman and maya.
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At every moment the universe is absorbed into the Principle and recreated. Although from one point of view creation is old, from another it is fresh and new. God's act of existentiation is ever present: existence is not so much a state as an act.
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For the sage every tree is a reflection of the tree of Paradise, every mountain a symbol of transcendence, the water of every flowing stream a symbol of Divine Mercy, the wind a mark of the Spirit.
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Everything has a face turned inward to God beyond all blemish and evil and a face turned outward.
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Everything has a face turned inward to God beyond all blemish and evil and a face turned outward.