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1937-1946

  • (If you ask one of them), “Why dost thou give him this aid all at once?” he says, “On account of his grief and helplessness.”
  • Lovingkindness is fallen a prey to the valiant (holy) man, (for) medicine seeks naught in the world but the pain (which it should cure).
  • Wherever a pain is, the remedy goes there: wherever a lowland is, the water runs there.
  • If thou want the water of mercy, go, become lowly, and then drink the wine of mercy and become drunken. 1940
  • Mercy upon mercy comes (and rises like a flood) up to the head; do not thou come down to (and dwell upon) a single mercy, O son!
  • Bring the sky under thy feet, O brave one! Hear from above the firmament the noise of the (celestial) music!
  • Put out of thine ear the cotton of evil suggestion, that the cries from heaven may come into thine ear.
  • Purge thy two eyes from the hair of defect, that thou mayst behold the garden and cypress-plot of the world unseen.
  • Eject the phlegm from thy brain and nose, that the wind of God may come into the centres of thy (spiritual) sense of smell. 1945
  • Do not leave (in thyself) any trace of fever and bile, that thou mayst get from the world the taste of sugar.