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If you don't break your ropes while you're alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?

Kabir

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Kabir
Age: 78 †
Born: 1440
Born: January 1
Died: 1518
Died: January 1
Philosopher
Poet
Weaver
Writer
Benares
Kabir Sahib
Ghost
Alive
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Think
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Ropes
Ghosts
Rope

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Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.
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As the river surrenders itself to the ocean, what is inside me moves inside you.
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Don't open your diamonds in a vegetable market. Tie them in bundle and keep them in your heart, and go your own way.
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