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Beloved,/ I am so glad,/ So very glad You have come. ↗

— حافظ

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I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns. ↗

— Rumi

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There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference. ↗

— William James

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I always knew this story would break my heart ↗

— Theo Lawrence

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The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights. 'White to play and mate in two moves.' Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother. White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism. Always, without exception, it is so arranged. In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won. Did it not symbolize the eternal, unvarying triumph of Good over Evil? The huge face gazed back at him, full of calm power. White always mates. ↗

— George Orwell

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Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

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The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity. ↗

— George Orwell

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Here in this body are the sacred rivers: here are the sun and moon as well as all the pilgrimage places... I have not encountered another temple as blissful as my own body. ↗

— Saraha

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A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

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