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The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.

-- Rumi

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In matters of religion, most persons prefer chewing the menu to actually eating the food!

-- An old Zen saying

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Haughtiness is for pausers.

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All mighty rivers fall silent when they reach the sea.

लागा चुनरी में दाग - साहिर लुधियानवी

[Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuJatxI882k]

My veil is stained, Oh how do I hide it?
I'm tainted.
How do I conceal it, how do I go home?
My veil is fouled.

It was untainted, as I was.
Now I am tarnished.
How will I face my father now, how do I go home?
My veil is tainted.

I stepped out of home and my resolve broke.
Coming into this world I am lost.
Oh, will I ever be able to face my father?
How will I ever go home?
I'm sullied.

My clean veil is my pure soul
The spot a drop of suffering.
That world was my actual home.
This world seems unreal.
Oh, can I ever face my father?
Can I ever go home?
Oh I am tainted.

There, I can hear him play his flute.
Joyous, my dancing feet will not touch the earth.
My anklets chime.
Oh no, I cannot be contained in this body.

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Ironically, the mind will attach itself most to the most detached person and detach itself first from the most attached person.

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It is, never enough.

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My heart burns like fire but my eyes are as cold as dead ashes.

-- Soyen Shaku

मोरी अरज सुनो - Faiz Ahmed Faiz

[Source: http://www.cokestudio.com.pk/]

Hear my plea, O Protector
O Mother, to whom do I describe the anguish of my soul?
O Protector, hear my plea

Tie my boat to your bank
Why don't you visit my temple?

With this grimace
Pleading
Sharing the pain
Rowing the boat
Asking for his blessings
Waiting expectantly
Countless centuries have passed by
Only now has it been revealed
The one who you had appealed to
The one who held your hand and guided you
Where your boat had docked
From whom you had asked for a panacea for your pain
The one who did not visit your temple
It was you only
It was you only

होर वी नीवां हो - Hamid Ali Bela

[Source: http://www.cokestudio.com.pk/]

Bow your head down
Even further in humility
Fakir, bow your head
Further down in humility

There is great pleasure in holding
The head high in arrogance
But, that pleasure
Will never be fulfilling

Bow your head down
Even further in humility
Fakir, bow your head
Further down in humility

One day you will be
Bestowed with His presence
Bow your head down
Even further in humility

Lord, if someone could understand
The deliberations of my heart
I am a seeker who seeks nothing
I am a wanderer, roaming from one land to another
No one can unravel the secrets within me

I am a wanderer
Come along, come with me
Bow your head down
Even further in humility