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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!
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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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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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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The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling
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The flute of the infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is love.
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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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I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.
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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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The essence of life is in remembering God.
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When the flower opens, the bees will come.
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Listen to your own Self. If you listen to that Self within, then you find the Truth.
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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!
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Only in the heart can one experience the divine presence of truth.
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The apple blossom exists to create fruit when that comes, the petal falls.
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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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Forgiveness is a game only saints play Kabir.
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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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If you don't break your ropes while you're alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?
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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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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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The man who is kind and who practices righteousness, who remains passive against the affairs of the world, who considers all creatures on earth as his own self, he attains the Immortal Being the true God is ever with him.
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