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While the non-yearner grasps for more and yet more things to put away in his pocket or belly, the yearner walks his way without a pocket, and with a belly clean of any creature's blood and convulsions.

— Mikha'il Na'ima The Book of Mirdad (1948)

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Whoever cannot find a temple in his heart, the same can never find his heart in any temple.

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Love is the only freedom from attachment. When you love everything, you are attached to nothing.

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The more elaborate his labyrinths, the further from the Sun his face.

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How much more infinite a sea is Man? Be not so childish as to measure him from head to foot and think that you have found his borders.

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Ask not of things to shed their veils. Unveil yourselves, and things will be unveiled.

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