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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
Doe
Ever
Mirror
Mirrors
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The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling
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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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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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Nada is found within. It is a music without strings which plays in the body. It penetrates the inner and outer and leads you away from illusion.
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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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Wear a crown of flowers on your head, let its roots reach your heart
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The Beloved is inside you and also inside me. You know the tree is hidden inside the seed. Let your arrogance go. None of us has gone far. Inside love there is more power than we realize.
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I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.
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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.
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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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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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Now I have no caste, no creed, I am no more what I am!
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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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I do not quote from the scriptures I simply see what I see.
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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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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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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 instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge soap cannot wash charcoal white.
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Forgiveness is a game only saints play Kabir.
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