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Passages similar to: The Alchemy of Happiness — The Knowledge of Self
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Sufi
The Alchemy of Happiness
The Knowledge of Self (8)
in the Koran is fulfilled: "We have stripped the veil from off thee and thy sight today is keen."
Sufi
Bayazid and the Saint (11-20)
You have made the pilgrimage and gained the life to come, You have become pure, and that in a moment of time. Of a truth that is God which your soul...
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Sufi
The Mule and the Camel (80-88)
Mustafa said to the angel Gabriel, "O friend, show me thy form as it really is; Show it to me openly and perceptibly, That I may behold thee with my...
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Hindu
Book II (52)
Thereby is worn away the veil which covers up the light.
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Zoroastrian
Yasna 30 — Ahunavaiti Gatha (2)
Hear ye then with your ears; see ye the bright flames with the (eyes of the) Better Mind. It is for a decision as to religions, man and man, each...
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Sufi
The Three Travelers (88-96)
Now, therefore, I will implore his grace for myself, For he will never avert his face from him that knew him." Know the eye of the ' Knower is a...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (35)
Behold! thou blind Heathen; behold! thou render, perverter, obscurer and wrester of the Scriptures, open thy eyes wide, and be not ashamed at this...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 16: Of the Seventh Species, Kind, Form, or Manner of Sin's Beginning in Lucifer and his Angels. (1)
HERE thou shouldst open thy eyes wide, for thou wilt see the hidden secret things which have been kept hidden from all men since the world began. For...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (58)
Most certainly there is but one God; hut when the veil is put away from thy eyes, so that thou seest and knowest him, then thou wilt also see and...
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Sufi
The Gluttonous Sufi (11-20)
You are wearied with ten prostrations in prayer, Such an one goes barefoot to the Ka'ba, Whilst another faints with going to the mosque." "At times...
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Sufi
The Sufi's Beast (21-30)
Now the eye sees how to distinguish colors, The eye distinguishes jewels from dust, Makers of base coin hate the daylight, Coins of pure gold love...
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Gnostic
Sayings (5)
Jesus said, "Recognize what is in your sight, and that which is hidden from you will become plain to you. For there is nothing hidden which will not...
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Hermetic
7. The Greatest Ill Among Men Is Ignorance of God (3)
Such is the hateful cloak thou wearest - that throttles thee [and holds thee] down to it, in order that thou may'st not gaze above, and having seen...
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Christian Mysticism
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (3)
But since it will henceforth be fully revealed, as in a clear looking-glass, therefore it may well be supposed or expected that the great day of the r...
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Sufi
Mahmud and Ayaz (continued) (23-33)
O pardon us, our sins are a heavy burden! Thou art hidden from us, though the heavens are filled With Thy light, which is brighter than sun and moon!...
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Sufi
The Sufi's Beast (89-97)
Would you have eyes and ears of reason clear, Tear off the obstructing veil of greed! The blind imitation of that Sufi proceeded from greed; Yea,...
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Jewish Apocrypha
Chapter CIV (2)
Be hopeful; for aforetime ye were put to shame through ill and affliction; but now ye shall shine as the lights of heaven, ye shall shine and ye...
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Sufi
The Prophet and his Infidel Guest (61-70)
Act and word manifest the secret thoughts and mind, When your witnesses are purified they are accepted, They enter into conflict with you, O...
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Sufi
The Chinese and the Greek Artists (19-27)
If you desire to rise above mere names and letters, Make yourself free from self at one stroke! Like a sword be without trace of soft iron; Like a...
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Sufi
The Prophet's Scribe (21-29)
Have a care lest one day they prevail over you! He in whose breast the leaf of true faith is grown Thou makest a mock of Iblis and the Devil, Because...
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Sufi
The Deadly Mosque (94-103)
The Koran cries out even to the last day, "O people, given up as a prey to ignorance, If ye have imagined me to be only empty fables, Ye yourselves wh...
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