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page 89
...Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face...
But you're life and you're the veil...
page 90
...He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked.
The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin
And he who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage
The freest song comes not through bars and wires
page 91
...And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles.
Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children...
page 93
...If you would indeed behold the spirit death, open your heart wide unto the body of life
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
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page 94
And what's it to cease breathing but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?
page 97
...We wanderers, ever seeking the lonlier way, begin no day where we've ended another day;
and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us...
page 102
...To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of ocean by the frailty of its foam...
page 103
...And what is word knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?...
page 106
...Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone...
page 108
...If these be vague words, then seek not to clear them...
Vague and nebulous is the beginning of all things, but not their end...
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