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Seeking Why run around sprinkling holy water? There's an ocean inside you, and when you're ready you'll drink.
Kabir
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Kabir
Age: 78 †
Born: 1440
Born: January 1
Died: 1518
Died: January 1
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Kabir Sahib
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Though One Brahman is the Cause of the Many. ... Behold but One in all things it is the second that leads you astray.
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A learned man's knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn't have control over his tongue
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The stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail.
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Listen to me brother! bring the vision of the Beloved in your heart
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Only in the heart can one experience the divine presence of truth.
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When you feel most alive, find out why, This is one guest you won't greet twice.
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Listen to your own Self. If you listen to that Self within, then you find the Truth.
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Wherever you are is the entry point.
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As long as I talked unceasingly about the Lord,The Lord stayed away, kept at a distance.But when I silenced my mouth, sat very stillAnd fixed my mind at the doorway of the Lord,I was linked to the music of the Word,And all my talking came to an end.
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Within the body there is played Music unending, though without stringed instruments That music of the Word pervades the entire creation Who listens to it is freed from all illusion
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The savor of wandering in the ocean of deathless life has rid me of all my asking: As the tree is in the seed, so all diseases are in this asking.
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Do what you do with another human being, but never put them out of your heart.
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All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
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I went in search of a bad person I found none as I, seeing myself, found me the worst.
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Now I have no caste, no creed, I am no more what I am!
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I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. I laugh when I hear that people go on pilgrimage to find God.
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