The Way

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You say: I shall commit evil for no one shall see. Know this: All is Seen

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You say: You are a false prophet for behold: I, king, do defy God and stand unharmed. Know this: The lightening of God is slow

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You say: the Lion killeth the Dove and all is well. Know this: the Lion cannot exist without the Dove

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You say: I see nothing but the Void. Know this: you do not see but believe

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You say: Why does God hide? Know this: It is you who are hiding

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You say: All has been taken away from me; I find no joy nor comfort in the world. Know this: There is no other way to meet Him

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You say: My life is pain. Know this: He has chosen you

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The fish swim through the seas and know not the sea. The birds fly through the air and know not the sky. The flowers burst forth from the ground and know not the earth. And so it is with Man and with God.

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What IS: is a Message, a Lesson, a Song

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You do not walk alone. The Path is within you

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You say: Why do good when the world is bad? Ask yourself: are you sure you have understood?

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As the flowers need the sun, as they reflect its image back to it; e’en so is Man and God

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You say: I cannot believe in what I cannot see. Know this: what is newly born also does not see

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You say: If there is but One God why so many faiths? An infinite Face allows for infinite portraits

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You ask: What is the right path? Joy, always joy

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The Dark is there so that there shall be Light

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The mystery of suffering is the Veil hiding God

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If you remove suffering from the world; you already possess the true Religion; do not fight about the Words

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Questioning is the first step. Feeling the second. And the third: leaves the first two far behind

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You cannot prove God you can only experience Him

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Can the mind of an ant fathom a Man? And so it is with us and God

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You say: God is not just. How would you know if there was no justice?

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Why a world of pain? To make the arrow

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Abraham suffered. Moses suffered. The Buddha suffered. Christ suffered. Mohammed suffered. And that is how they knew

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Without love you shall not find God. But without losing it you shall not find Him either.

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Once you have subtracted everything; you will have found everything

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There is a stillness of fire. There shall you find Him.

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What you are is a mask: tear it off.

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You fear death because you love yourself more than anything else in the World. Learn to love the World more and fear death less.

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Love and hate hide the Stillness that you must reach

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He or she or they have done you wrong? No. They have done themselves wrong.

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God is not an equation, nor an explanation. He is a Meeting

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The World is the middle term between Man and God. It is a door that both opens and closes.

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God is pure thought. It is when we think most deeply that we meet Him.

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Man must learn to think with love. All else shall be death

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And God created. And you shall destroy?

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Do not mistake love for knowledge. It is only the first step

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All Being thinks.

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Our future depends not only on right thinking but on right feeling

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The destiny of Man is to bring life to the Cosmos. That is to say: Joy

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An Eons may pass and still shall you ask: Is He there?

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Do not love thy neighbor as thyself but strive to understand him

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Do you think that God chose only one people, one faith, one man? No. All of us have been chosen, if we but have the courage to accept.

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Do not love God. Know Him.

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Adam and Eve were not cast out. They were awakened.

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And God destroyed the world for it was wicked. No. Not God. We.

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What dost thou truly know of life, if you fear death?

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You say: I love life, I do not wish to die. No. You love your sensation of life. Not Life itself.

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The Great Faith of the Future is this: love all of Life above your own

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And Moses loved his people. And Jesus loved His enemy. And Mohamed loved the Word of God. And we? What shall we love? The flourishing of Life

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Fight for the future of this planet and its people. Honor the past, but do not let yourselves be killed by it.

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God, the Father. Planet, Mother.

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Even the greatest of prophets shall not reach God. Learn to distinguish between staring at the sea and swimming in it.

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You have planted a tree. Saved an animal’s life. Invented medicine. Given courage to a child. You are among the blessed.

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There is a stillness that cannot be described by stillness.

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We have been given special kinds of claws and fangs meant to teach us not to fight

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There is no place for hate in an age of planetary technology but an even greater place for love

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Science will feed you but only love will make you live.

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And e’en the whole world shall hate thee; you shalt love; you shall be a witness to God.

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And they shall inflict evil upon you and yet you shall do good for you are a follower of Life.

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Do not shun the evil man, teach him life.

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The One created Life. And you, too, shall create it.

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Children are beautiful. All of life even more so

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God shall enter through your wounds

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The man who believes shall sustain a world, the man who believes in nothing shall lose it

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It has been said: Believe in yourself. That is now not enough. Believe rather in the mystery of all living Beings

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The One is the creator; Man must imitate Him

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Power is the means, life the goal

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Holiness is a state of equilibrium between feeling, thinking, believing, and doing

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Art is a metaphor for God. Take it seriously.

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Beware science without faith lest you damn yourselves

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The World are the Eyes of God. Learn to stare into them.

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You love him or her? God is calling you

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There can be no hope without belief and no belief without a deep love of all of life

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It has been written: Thou shalt not kill. And yet, you kill in God’s Name. You have not listened.

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Honor life and save yourselves

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Seek out wisdom, abuse not knowledge, deepen the roots of love

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Strive to let things be as they wish themselves to be without thereby limiting others. This is the road to true peace

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Atheism is the certainty of pride before reason

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Atheism is not an evolved position but the radical eradication of a profound possibility

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Love Life and you shall Love the One; e’en you shall never meet Him

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You are proud to be Jewish, Muslim, Christian. Be even prouder to be human.

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Billions of years have passed and here we are facing one another. This is the miracle

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There could have been Nothing At All. And yet there is Something. Ponder this, the essential root of Awe

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Serve the One by being servants of Life

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Shun those who desire power over understanding for they are the harbingers of death

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The soul is born in the world not before it

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God is not dead. He is evolving

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And should you become masters of the stars, yet, He, shall be greater

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Pride is as the worm who sayeth: Behold! The Earth is mine

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It is not love that moves the universe but the will to love

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God wills: in this the profound wisdom of Islam

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Charity sayeth all religions. The greatest charity is based on the profoundest love of life

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Do not kill for ideas, live for them

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Beware those who cleverly disguise hate for they are the harbingers of doom

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Believe not those who promise you power for they will give you none of it

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There is one God. One world. One humanity. And one true faith: Life

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False prophets shout, divine ones whisper

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If you cannot love one another then strive to help one another. Otherwise you shall not survive

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Believe in life and you will believe in the journey and thus you shall always find a way to the better future and, perhaps, e’en to the mysteries of God

Dan Corjescu teaches at the University of Tübingen’s “Studium Professionale” Program

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