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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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Kabir
Age: 78 †
Born: 1440
Born: January 1
Died: 1518
Died: January 1
Philosopher
Poet
Weaver
Writer
Benares
Kabir Sahib
Mirrors
Makes
Doe
Ever
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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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Though One Brahman is the Cause of the Many. ... Behold but One in all things it is the second that leads you astray.
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The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge soap cannot wash charcoal white.
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Love does not grow on trees or brought in the market, but if one wants to be LOVED one must first know how to give (unconditional) 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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Path presupposes distance If He be near, no path needest thou at all. Verily it maketh me smile To hear of a fish in water athirst!
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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 stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail.
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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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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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As the river surrenders itself to the ocean, what is inside me moves inside you.
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A diamond was laying in the street covered with dirt. Many fools passed by. Someone who knew diamonds picked it up.
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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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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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I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days and God came to me.
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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 flute of the infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is love.
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