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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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Only in the heart can one experience the divine presence of truth.
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Path presupposes distance If He be near, no path needest thou at all. Verily it maketh me smile To hear of a fish in water athirst!
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Be quiet in your mind, quiet in your senses, and also quiet in your body. Then, when all these are quiet, don't do anything. In that state truth will reveal itself to you.
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I don't think there is such a thing as an intelligent mega-rich person. For who with a fine mind can look out upon this world and hoard what can nourish a thousand souls.
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The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge soap cannot wash charcoal white.
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Do you believe there is some place that will make thesoul less thirsty? In that great absence you will find nothing.
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Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.
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What is found now is found then. If you find nothing now, you will simply end up with an apartment in the City of Death.
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Listen to me brother! bring the vision of the Beloved in your heart
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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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Nada is found within. It is a music without strings which plays in the body. It penetrates the inner and outer and leads you away from illusion.
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It is the spirit of the quest which helps
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When the flower opens, the bees will come.
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A diamond was laying in the street covered with dirt. Many fools passed by. Someone who knew diamonds picked it up.
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The apple blossom exists to create fruit when that comes, the petal falls.
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Do not keep the slanderer away, treat him with affection and honor: Body and soul, he scours all clean, babbling about this and that.
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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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When the Guest is being searched for, it is the intensity of the longing for the Guest that does all the work. Look at me, and you will see a slave of that intensity.
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The flute of the infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is love.
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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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