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"Love is the Law of God. You live that you may learn to love. You love that you may learn to live. No other lesson is required of Man."

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“So think as if your every thought were to be etched in fire upon the sky for all and everything to see. For so, in truth, it is.”

“If that be your guiding spirit in eating of the heart of the Earth, then little does it matter what you eat. But if that be, indeed, your guiding spirit, then should you have the wisdom and the love not to bereave the Earth of any of her children, especially those which have come to feel the pleasure of living and the pain of dying – those that have arrived at the segment of Duality. For they, too, have their road to wend, slowly and laboriously, towards Unity. And their road is longer than yours. Delay them in their march, and they shall delay you in your march.”

“How much more infinite a sea is Man? Be not so childish as to measure him from head to foot and think that you have found his borders.”

“Ask not of things to shed their veils. Unveil yourselves, and things will be unveiled.”

“Love is the only freedom from attachment. When you love everything, you are attached to nothing.”

“Of two men sharing with a calf the milk of that calf's mother one eyes the calf with the thought that his tender flesh would provide good meat for him and his friends to feast upon at his approaching birthday. The other thinks of the calf as his brother of the teat and is filled with affection for the young beast and his mother. I say to you, the latter is truly nourished by that calf's meat; while the first is poisoned thereby. Aye, many things are put in the belly that should be put in the heart.”