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Once A Man Came To Me - It Was Not Too Long Ago - And Said That He Had Given Away Much Landed Property And Many Goods For His Own Sake So That He Might Save His Soul. Then I Thought: 'how Little And How Insignificant Is What You Have Let Go Of! It Is Blindness And Foolishness For You To Continue Looking At All You've Let Go Of. If, However, You've Let Go Of Yourself, Then You've Really Let Go.'

Think More About Who You Are And Less About What You Do, For If You Are Just, Your Ways Will Be Just.

It Is Permissible To Take Life's Blessings With Both Hands Provided Thou Dost Know Thyself Prepared In The Opposite Event To Take Them Just As Gladly. This Applies To Food And Friends And Kindred, To Anything God Gives And Takes Away... As Long As God Is Satisfied Do Thou Rest Content. If He Is Pleased To Want Something Else Of Thee, Still Rest Content.

Become Aware Of What Is In You. Announce It, Pronounce It, Produce It, And Give Birth To It.

The Second Means Of Attraction Which He Used Is Emptiness, As We See When We Place One End Of A Hollow Pipe In Water, And Draw Up It By Suction; The Water Runs Up The Stem To The Mouth, Because The Emptiness Of The Pipe, From Which The Air Has Been Drawn, Draws The Water To Itself.