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LOVE is the only way the proud will refuse to walk.
It’s behind every annoyance, and yet we pray.
Above all desires, and we yet want.
Beyond all numbers, and yet we count.
ENJOY your frustrations.
Despise your desires.
Most desires are unworthy of you.
Love annoys even the unworthy of it.
DESIRE IS POVERTY.
And disordered wealth is the receipt.
I only desire to know why I desire.
When I turn away from my desires,
My desires appear.
LOVE your frustrations, it is a joy.
Love your frustrations, it is the only joy.
Love your frustrations, for from there your happiness is born.
UNDISTRACTED by the false, I am closer to the truth.
Undistracted by desires, I am closer to peace.
Unfluent in death, I am closer to life.
Unfluent in death, I confuse all life.
WIN the argument,
By speaking the least and improving the most.
Lose the fight, and win your soul.
EVERYWHERE you go, your problems follow you.
Wherever the hiker walks, his mountain appears.
Though he escapes into the city,
His mountain follows him there,
In the shape of the city.
WHATEVER you hate, you are unable to love.
Whatever you hate, you are unworthy to love.
Whatever you think you hate, you can only love.
Whatever you think you love, you cannot love.
DO NOT desire thanks, be thankful.
Do not desire kindness, be kind.
Do not look for signs in Heaven.
Be you the sign on earth.
NOTHING works as we think, only as it is.
But one cannot learn the truth if they are distracted
By the appearance of knowledge.
And so only the ignorant learn.
LOVE is a miracle disguised as our chores.
LOVE is the accent of my soul.
LOVE that desires reward loves neither you nor the reward.
LOVE isn’t possible.
And yet it happens in my heart.
The a-phile laughs at me.
But how he loves to laugh.
WE are offended by the things we only think we love.
We are hateful to the things we only want to love.
THE OPPOSITE of love is not hate,
But saying so and doing nothing.
The opposite of love is not hate,
But saying so and expecting anything.
THE CUP filled with wrath cannot pour out love.
To swallow your vengeance and live is the only vengeance in life.
THE GATES of Heaven are in hell.
To love what hates you is to love what loves you.
To hate what hates you is to hate what loves you.
To return hatred with hatred is the only slavery.
To return hatred with hatred is the only death.
YOU CANNOT love and hate at the same time.
Nor can you love one and hate another.
Love shamefully, for you will be shameful either way.
Love hypocritically, for you will be a hypocrite.
Love for no good reason, for you won’t have one either way.
LOVE PROVIDES.
For it consciously fills the heart of every subprovider.
Hate, then, is the only death.
To mind anything is to sleepwalk your way to endless agony.
And to be mean to anything
Is to commit the most humiliating violence
Against your own soul.
ANGER at betrayal is worse than betrayal.
For there are many kinds of dishonesty,
But only one kind of faithfulness.
And many kinds of hatred,
But only one kind of thoughtfulness.
Anger at disrespect is worse than disrespect.
For there are many ways of looking down,
But only one kind of equality.
And many kinds of meanness,
But only one kind of kindness.
HE who blocks your path is the brother of your way.
PRIDE IS HUMILATION.
And anger is its own punishment.
ANGER is the idolatry of death.
For anger at idolatry is the idolatry of anger.
The more anything bothers such a person,
The more they need to hear it.
The more anything offends such a person,
The more they need to be offended.
A teacher takes a student far,
But no farther than himself.
What takes the longest to fill may be filled the slowest,
But is filled the most.
FORCE IS FEEBLE.
For the stronger the grip of your hand,
The more vulnerable the wrist for your arrest.
To have is to never worry about letting it go.
For we only fear losing what we know we don’t have.
And we only fear things occurring
That we know we are making occur.
And we only ever demand from others
What we know is missing in ourselves.
ARROGANCE, in tiny forms, is forgiven easily.
But the smaller the fleas,
The more we need to be convinced
They are the cause of all of our pain.
CONSENSUS proves the error.
Silence proves the truth.
The truth, to many, is whatever is best to repeat to others.
The truth, to all, is in our eyes.
TO COMPLAIN is to hate fairness.
The one who begs for anything hates it more than anyone.
Build up, instead, the altar of your heart,
And the light of fairness will come down into it,
In the fairness of time.
Can the light of fairness ever reach the depths
Of the miserable and complaining heart?
WHAT is is. What is not is not.
What is not is the only thing that can come to be.
And if one wants it to be, a part of it already is.
And if it already is, it always was.
Desire, then, is to partake already in a part of the truest aspect of what we say we want.
To take is to reject it.
To want is better than to have.
But to not want is better than to want.
The desire of desirelessness is the journey to Heaven.
To desire anything else is to choose to walk the other way.
THE HEART sees only itself.
Attack yourself, and you will beg for enemies.
Fight yourself, and no one will come for you.
If you love yourself enough to fight,
Fight, first, yourself.
HATE cannot see love.
But hate is always obsessed with what it thinks it loves.
Nor does love accuse or envy,
Nor does it make demands for its own sake,
For love does not desire for its own sake.
Love empties itself of all things,
Even itself.
SHAMELESS SELFLESSNESS.
Gratuitous gratitude.
Crushing kindness.
These three things prove our immortality.
For to go beyond the nature of our constitution
Proves being beyond the state we are contained.
WE ARE not what we have, know, believe, or do.
But only how we misuse them all.
The opposite of excellence is not failure, but arrogance.
The opposite of ownership is not poverty, but possessiveness.
The opposite of value is not worthlessness, but to humiliate.
The opposite of thought is not thoughtlessness, but opinion.
THE OPPOSITE of love is not hate, but death.
The opposite of divinity is not evil, but desire.
MOCKERY is closer to worship than to hatred.
Desire is closer to fear than to satisfaction.
Sleep is closer to knowledge than opinion.
Indifference is closer to solutions than passion.
TO LOVE all who deserve it, love all who don’t.
To hate no one wrongly, hate no one rightly.
To hate everyone, hate anyone.
To hate everything, hate anything.
GIVE shamelessly, give shamefully.
Give with no regard to shame.
Forgive shamelessly, forgive shamefully.
Forgive with no regard to shame.
Give and forgive, and give again.
SERVICE is the only wealth.
To be desired is the only possession that cannot be stolen.
To be desired is the only possession that cannot be counted.
To be desired is the only possession that is full at the start.
Defend your own people, and you’ll always have to.
Defend another, and you’ll never have to defend yours.
Be stingy, and you’ll always have to.
Give things away, and your things will return with friends.
SACRIFICE the pennies of life and live.
And do not count them.
For to count your sacrifices is like counting the molecules
Of oxygen in your lungs as you breathe.
But to sacrifice nothing is as to suffocate and die.
GRIEF is the mother of happiness.
Happiness is the son of grief.
Happiness is pleasure from excellence.
Excellence is the most comfortable experience
Because excellence is the most proper state of the soul.
LOVE exists, so how can we profit from theft?
To improve is the only profit,
And to sacrifice is the only improvement.
For these reasons, one cannot improve through injustice.
LOVE exists, so how can we profit from argument?
The only thing the heart should stand to do
Is fall in love, and stay down, and be quiet.
Love is the enamel of the heart, it protects it from all things.
How can we trust a man who hates anything at all?
So I ask of you to either love, which sustains all life,
Or to believe you know better.
But if so, you have my permission to die.
LOVE exists, so why desire anything else?
He who seeks honey is followed by swarms of bees.
But he who follows the bees,
Though is he stung,
Always has life and honey in him.
LOVE exists, so why do you always feel so betrayed?
Why do you concern yourself with where she is?
Or how he acts? Or how she looks?
Why worry about how he treats you, or what she says?
A drop of love is worth every pain that comes with it.
Those who know never complain;
Just as he who owns a goldmine
Won’t ever worry about an anthill.
DIVINITY CONJURES ALL ATTRACTIONS.
CONDITIONS condemn you.
To condition your love is to hate the ones you say you love.
But to uncondition your love is to have it forever.
When your wife criticizes you
Praise her for going through the trouble.
And if she takes your friend to dinner,
Pay him to have her a second time.
To have something forever, let go of it now.
For as long as there is a forever, there is no now.
Let go of now, and take, instead, forever.
Reject the present, revere infinity,
And let it take everything you think you have.
For what you cannot give up you do not really own,
And what you do not own will be taken from you,
And what will be taken from you,
You never really even had.
THUS, THE STINGEY HAS NOTHING,
AND FEARS THE AWARENESS OF THAT TRUTH.
And thus, again, desire is poverty.
But infinity freely offers the wealth of infinity,
To the ones with empty enough hands that can accept it.
And thus, desirelessness is the first and only step
Towards the infinite wealth of infinity.
HE that loves one because he hates another,
And he who hates one because he loves another,
Neither loves or hates the other.
MARVEL always at the polish of the altar of your heart.
The first obstacle to have her is her,
The last obstacle to have her is you.
The first skill, to have, is the strength to overcome and win.
The last skill, to have, is the strength to surrender and lose.
This is the pulse of possession.
MARVEL always at the limitless loving nature
Of your being, which proves being beyond your flesh.
To avoid being mocked for how much you love anything
Is to waste your divinity for the sake of the dust that hates you.
MARVEL always at your sins, your anger and desire.
To marvel is to detach from the train which leads to death.
I AM the grass in the water, step on me.
But when I grab your feet I will never let go.
EVERY thought you had has always existed.
Everyone in your way was always the way to yourself.
EVERY event flows in the direction you make destiny go.
Like the mosquito follows you in the direction of your veins,
And your blood follows you in the direction of your limbs,
Destiny follows you in the direction of your mind.
EVERY recitation inspires the very text it recites.
For when the author writes upon the heart of the reader,
The heart of the reader writes back.
Thus, every text is inspired in both directions.
EVERY soul influences the formation of its prayers.
But every prayer also influences the formation of its soul.
Thus, everyone influences themselves in both directions.
EVERYTHING CARRIES ETERNITY.
He who hates any moment hates every moment.
He who hates any man hates every man.
He who hates war hates peace.
He who hates the ugly hates the beautiful.
He who hates his enemy hates his friend.
EVERY presence interferes
With the truer substance of its meaning.
Thus, a picture reminds us of us even more than ourselves.
And thus, the myth is truer than the reality it represents.
EVERY love endures the suffering it never desires.
Love licks its own wounds.
But every desire calls for the suffering it never endures.
Desire is an endless pit.
EVERYWHERE you put a particle of evil becomes hell.
Every space in Heaven must be Heaven for Heaven to be.
EVERY thousandth of particle of goodness,
Is in every millionth of a particle of evil,
Is in every billionth of a particle of goodness,
Is in every trillionth of a particle of evil.
Do not eat this fruit, nor command others to love.
Just marvel and love.
BE GLAD when you don’t have your way.
Otherwise you desire the way of another, and are a thief!
BE GLAD with lots and lots of waste.
Otherwise your neighbor will remain unsatisfied and steal!
BE GLAD when you find the good in your enemy.
It is for the sake of your friend!
PRAY NOT for the needy, but to be needed!
CONSIDER NOT only what is clean, when life is so dirty!
HONOR your exes as your second parents.
If they warmed your heart, let them burn it!
DO NOT BURDEN ANOTHER
WITH WHAT YOU YOURSELF CANNOT BEAR.
LOVE their ingratitude, for that is gratitude!
LOVE their unkindness, for that is kindness!
SURRENDER today, yourself, to the impossible.
For without you, today is impossible!
AND LOVE Him above all things that He made,
For that is Heaven!
MASTERY finds the ears of the novice.
NECESSITY finds the hands of the master.
The necessary always converges with what needs it.
One problem solves another.
Therefore, by definition, there are no problems.
The self-sustainability of all things is an open great secret.
Desirelessness is the fruit of that knowledge.
WORRY is carelessness pretending to care.
ANXITY is thoughtlessness pretending to think.
PASSION is prolonged indifference pretending to love.
THOSE to only eat will eat those who make their food.
Those who only make bread make bakers, and all things.
CONSUMPTION, then, must be paid for.
A MAN thinks not with his mind, but his hands.
A man handles not with his hands, but his mind.
THE THIEF owns less than nothing,
For he truly owes.
THE STINGY values his things less than those who ask for it,
For all things want to be given away, and will escape him.
THE TYRANT controls less than nothing,
Unselfcontrolled, he is like a leaf blowing in the wind.
HATRED is worse than death,
For it is the very pleasant journey to your true death,
The pleasure of which is the very pleasure of DEATH itself,
Waiting to righteously consume you.
Thus, hatred is the fully self-satisfied pleasure
Of your own destruction, so exceedingly pleasant,
Only because you also take pleasure in your own sacrifice.
To hate is to sacrifice your life at the altar of DEATH.
To love is to mock DEATH at the altar of life.
TO PROVE you have it, let it go.
To prove you are good, dig again.
THE MORE admirable you become,
The less you can be admired.
The purer your love,
The less they will tell you.
The more you do,
The more will be asked of you.
But anything asked of you gives you the very power to do it.
This open secret is greater than all forms of magic.
PRAISE hates true improvement.
The weaker your accomplishments,
The more you are praised.
The truer your accomplishments,
The less you are praised.
Thus, those who are pleased by praise
Destroy themselves the same way as those
Who praise all destruction.
The pleasure of which is the very pleasure of DEATH itself,
Waiting to righteously consume you.
ALL THINGS you believe you are above doing,
You are, in fact, so far below it, you are disorientated.
For heavy is the broom in the unworthy hand,
But mine is my staff that transfigures me.
EVERY supposed-problem in marriage
Is but the hot water for the tea of your souls.
Let it bring out all of the good sitting inside of you all along.
Pray for them to be unfair,
For the more unfair they are,
The better you will understand fairness.
Pray that they are mean,
For the meaner they are,
The better will understand true and gentle kindness.
WHATEVER your wife makes an open secret,
She hates having to tell you.
But a man who doesn’t put down his book or device,
To listen to his wife tell him what he should already know,
Hates both learning, and his device.
WHATEVER of yours they disrespect, sell the next day.
WHENEVER you feel disrespected, first, respect yourself.
WHATEVER catches the eye of the unfaithful
They believe they care for, and care about, but they do not.
For the unfaithful care about beauty
At the very expense of those who have it.
And the unkind care about kindness
At the very expense of all kindness.
WHENEVER they mock your loving kindness,
Be glad, for it is how divinity is praised by the dust.
Whenever they praise you, they hope you stay there.
Turn away from praise, and work praiselessly instead.
Love, without condition, is the only kind with birth pains,
Because it is the only kind which brings you to divine life.
Love under conditions is easy,
Because it is easy to die.
Love, without condition, is the only kind which people mock,
Because it is the only kind which mocks DEATH itself.
WHATEVER misdeed you are guided to see,
Be guided also to see the divinity in the pits of its fruits.
O, you supposed lovers of goodness, who never dig for it!
WHENEVER someone fights for fairness,
See also the unfairness in every step of their pursuit of it.
O, you supposed lovers of fairness, who never succumb to it!
WHATEVER you try to escape, is the very way to it.
You escape neither your blessings, nor your punishments.
Why worry or scheme?
SURRENDER, or you will be taken.
GIVE, or it will be stolen.
You are soulmates with one half of everything,
And doommates with the other, in this very Aware World.
There is no possession but the awareness of this.
There is no poverty but pretending to have.
There is no other ignorance than pretending to know.
EVERY divorce proves the existence of the divine.
For the soulless body would simply be accustomed to all evil.
Divorce, then, is when one prefers life, and the other, death.
EVERY way you desire to be treated, treat each other better.
EVERYTHING follows your heart.
The less you can hate, the more you can love.
The more you can love, the more you can live.
The more you can live, the more you will live.
The opposite of life, then, is not to die, but to mind.
And the only thing that is embarrassing is embarrassment.
EVERY, and ALL, supposedly harmful,
And terribly mean strikes
She has ever given me,
Has only ever improved me, and now you.
Thus, my wife is the most beautiful woman He ever made.
But I love her anyway.
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