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There's a hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness. We are lutes, no more, no less. If the soundbox is stuffed full of anything, no music.... When you're full of food and drink, Satan sits where your spirit should.
Lovers move like lightning and wind. No contest. Theologians mumble, rumble-dumble, necessity and free will, while lover and beloved pull themselves into each other.
I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.
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Journey from the self to the Self and find the mine of gold. Leave behind what is sour and bitter and move toward the sweet.
Little by little, wean yourself. This is the gist of what I have to say. From an embryo whose nourishment comes in the blood, move to an infant drinking milk, to a child on solid food, to a searcher after wisdom, to a hunter of invisible game.
Every object and being in the universe is a jar overflowing with wisdom and beauty,a drop of the Tigris that cannot be contained by any skin. Every jarful spills and makes the earth more shining, as though covered in satin... Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty.
It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.
That's how you came here, like a star without a name. Move across the night sky with those anonymous lights.
Pale sunlight, pale the wall. Love moves away. The light changes I need more grace than I thought.
A shadow cannot ignore the sun that all day creates and moves it.
Move, but don't move the way fear makes you move.
What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch it with food and other ego-satisfactions.
Every forest branch moves differently in the breeze,
but as they sway they connect at the roots.
Journeys bring power and love back into you. If you can't go somewhere, move in the passageways of the self. They are like shafts of light, always changing, and you change when you explore them.
Soul of all souls, life of all life - you are That.
Seen and unseen, moving and unmoving - you are That.
Soul, a moving river. Body, the riverbed.
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Look as long as you can at the friend you love,
no matter whether that friend is moving away from you
or coming back toward you.
