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“How will you become free? With a quiet mind Come into that empty house, your heart, And feel the joy of the way Beyond the world. Look within - The rising and the falling.”

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Pain is the outcome of sin.

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It is because I perceive the danger in the practice of mystic wonders, that I loath, abhor, and am ashamed thereof.

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Watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love born out of concern for all beings.

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One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy.

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