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When the Guest is being searched for, it is the intensity of the longing for the Guest that does all the work. Look at me, and you will see a slave of that intensity.
Kabir
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Kabir
Age: 78 †
Born: 1440
Born: January 1
Died: 1518
Died: January 1
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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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Do what you do with another human being, but never put them out of your heart.
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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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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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All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
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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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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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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 apple blossom exists to create fruit when that comes, the petal falls.
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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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When the flower opens, the bees will come.
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I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days and God came to me.
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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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Now I have no caste, no creed, I am no more what I am!
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Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.
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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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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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Only in the heart can one experience the divine presence of truth.
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I went in search of a bad person I found none as I, seeing myself, found me the worst.
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The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling
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