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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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