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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.
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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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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If you don't break your ropes while you're alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?
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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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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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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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I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling.
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Men have always looked before and after, and rebelled against the existing order. But for their divine discontent, men would not have been men, and there would have been no progress in human affairs.
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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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The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling
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Love does not grow on trees or brought in the market, but if one wants to be LOVED one must first know how to give (unconditional) LOVE.
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Go over and over your beads, paint weird designs on your forehead, wear your hear matted, long, and ostentatious, but when deep inside you there is a loaded gun, how can you have God?
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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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