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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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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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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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Do not praise yourself not slander others: There are still many days to go and any thing could happen.
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Now I have no caste, no creed, I am no more what I am!
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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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Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.
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The apple blossom exists to create fruit when that comes, the petal falls.
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The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling
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I don't think there is such a thing as an intelligent mega-rich person. For who with a fine mind can look out upon this world and hoard what can nourish a thousand souls.
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My heart is so intoxicated with love that I have no wish to speak.
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It is the spirit of the quest which helps
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I've burned my own house down, the torch is in my hand.Now I'll burn down the house of anyone who wants to follow me.
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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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But if a mirror ever makes you sad you should know that it does not know you.
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The essence of life is in remembering 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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Seeking Why run around sprinkling holy water? There's an ocean inside you, and when you're ready you'll drink.
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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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Within the body there is played Music unending, though without stringed instruments That music of the Word pervades the entire creation Who listens to it is freed from all illusion
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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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