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24 The Pr ayer o f t h e He a r t mountain ; perhaps you will meet yourself at the way station of desire, or at the gates of meanings swinging in the shade of beautiful trees . Take your flute ; Have no fear, for you are the meaning of the symbols that lurk within the letters, you are the prayer, you are the flute’s lament in the desert . Throw away your finery ; strip yourself naked of your old clothing in the marketplace and throw away your burden into the depth of folly ; pass the gates of exile so that the hidden light shall be born of your prayer above the hills that travel in time . We might occasionally grow tired of searching after a clear meaning to our culturally motivated, spontaneous behavior . Sometimes we find it difficult to give an objective name to what we have labeled as good relations between the Creator and ourselves . Sometimes our far - ranging imagination allows us to give names to some of our belief - motivated actions, such as the words of prayer . We use the w...
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