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All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
Kabir
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Kabir
Age: 78 †
Born: 1440
Born: January 1
Died: 1518
Died: January 1
Philosopher
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Benares
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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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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When you feel most alive, find out why, This is one guest you won't greet twice.
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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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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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As the river surrenders itself to the ocean, what is inside me moves inside you.
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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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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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Music without words means leaving behind the mind. And leaving behind the mind is meditation. Meditation returns you to the source. And the source of all is sound.
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Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
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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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I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days and God came to me.
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Do what you do with another human being, but never put them out of your heart.
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The apple blossom exists to create fruit when that comes, the petal falls.
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The Beloved is inside you and also inside me. You know the tree is hidden inside the seed. Let your arrogance go. None of us has gone far. Inside love there is more power than we realize.
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The Lord is in me, the Lord is in you,as life is in every seed, put false pride away and seek the Lord within.
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