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Love’s Mysteries
“We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality…but given the state of the world, is it wise?”
— Iris Murdoch
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“The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky. Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.”
― Plotinus 205–270 AD
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“All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.”
— Tahereh Mafi
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Love is the bridge, the transfer of energy between form and formless, matter and spirit. Love holds the universe together.
— Ram Dass
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“To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not,
You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.
In order to arrive at what you do not know
You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance.
In order to possess what you do not possess
You must go by the way of dispossession.
In order to arrive at what you are not
You must go through the way in which you are not.
And what you do not know is the only thing you know
And what you own is what you do not own
And where you are is where…
