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  • How does not he die before him, saying, “O lord of the Water, make me living by the command ‘Be’?
  • Take heed! Do not wish your currish (fleshy) soul alive, for it is the enemy of your spirit since long ago.
  • Dust be on the head of the bones that hinder this cur from hunting the spirit! 475
  • (If) you are not a cur, how are you in love with bones? Why are you in love with blood, like a leech?
  • What (sort of) eye is that that hath no sight, and gets nothing but disgrace from the tests (to which it is put)?
  • Opinions are sometimes erroneous, (but) what (sort of) opinion is this that is blind to the (right) road?
  • O eye, thou makest lament for others: sit down awhile and weep for thyself!
  • The bough is made green and fresh by the weeping cloud, for the (same) reason that the candle is made brighter by (its) weeping. 480
  • Wheresoever people are lamenting, sit you there (and lament), because you have a better right to moan (than they have),
  • Inasmuch as they are (concerned) with parting from that which passes away, and are forgetful of the ruby of everlasting-ness that belongs to the mine (of Reality);