I have an idol such that, were his sweet scent scattered
abroad, even an idol of stone would receive life through joy.
(My Mother Was Fortune, My Father Generosity And Bounty)
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In the face of the mirror of love we must not breathe a word of
ourselves; we must become intimate with your treasure when
we are changed to waste.
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God's love is a very strong fortress; I carry my soul's baggage inside a fortress.
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The drunkenness of love makes me unaware whether I have
profit of loss therefrom.
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When I became lost, O soul, through love of the king of the peris, hidden from self and creatures, I am as if peri-born myself.
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Reason a seeker of certainty through him, patience a seeker of help through him, love seeing the unseen through him, earth taking the form of Adam through him.
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