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Emerge from your confusion, find the inner seat of your humanity. There, a single breath will fill you with the answer to a hundred mysteries.
Meditate
Keep vigil at night and fast during the day, until yearning for knowledge surfaces within you.
Fasting is necessary
Let love engulf you and you’ll quickly find the key that unlocks both worlds. If you are weak, you’ll become strong; if you are strong, you’ll become a bottomless ocean.
The outward existence of this complex kaleidoscopic world is just like the forms and images on that tray: nothing.
If you occupy yourself with your ego, your life will be lived in their hellish company. But if you rid yourself of the snakes and scorpions one by one, you’ll sleep sweetly inside the earth.
When your inner self dissolves into selflessness, you’ll transcend both good and evil. When no good or bad remains in you, you’ll become a true lover, deserving of annihilation by love.
All that you have known, all that you have seen, were illusions, all of it. Nothing you have said or heard was actually so. The valleys you traversed were in Me, the bravery you displayed was Mine.
Not until your life is rejected by the Divine can you find acceptance in the Almighty’s court. Not until you learn humility in your annihilation can you attain baqa, everlasting life.
Leave asceticism, forget piety! It’s pain you must seek, longing and experience.
Disengage from the mind to learn the wisdom of spiritual faith, for if you learn love in the realm of philosophy, you’ll never know love in the dominion of the soul.
Important
The Beloved says, “Enter, you are worthy of the Way,” to one who has harvested oceans from tears, and, “Leave, you have no business here,” to eyes that do not know blood-tears.
