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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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When you feel most alive, find out why, This is one guest you won't greet twice.
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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!
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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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Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.
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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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But if a mirror ever makes you sad you should know that it does not know you.
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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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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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Reading books everyone died, none became any wise. One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.
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The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge soap cannot wash charcoal white.
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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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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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There is no river at all, and no boat, and no boatman. There is not even a rope to tow the boat, and no one to pull it. There is no earth, no sky, no time, no thing, no shore, no ford!
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When the flower opens, the bees will come.
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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'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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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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Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.
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The essence of life is in remembering God.
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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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