the good secret

   

Gregory Colbert

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Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. Then when you see what is around you as not other-than-you, and all and everything as the existence of the One; when you do not see anything else with Him or in him; but see Him in everything as yourself and at the same time as the nonexistence of yourself; then what you see is the truth.


—Ibn al-Arabi

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Love all.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand.

Love every leaf and every ray of light.

Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment.

If you love each separate fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.


—Dostoevsky

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this is how love catches up and wants to be our friend, as we hold 

each other, and the good secret inside slides forth continuous

—Rumi

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