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I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. You don't grasp the fact that what is most alive of all is inside your own house and so you walk from one holy city to the next with a confused look!
Kabir
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Kabir
Age: 78 †
Born: 1440
Born: January 1
Died: 1518
Died: January 1
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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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Now I have no caste, no creed, I am no more what I am!
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Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert, when all around you there is nothing but water!
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