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Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
Kabir
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Kabir
Age: 78 †
Born: 1440
Born: January 1
Died: 1518
Died: January 1
Philosopher
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Benares
Kabir Sahib
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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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The apple blossom exists to create fruit when that comes, the petal falls.
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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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All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
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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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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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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 laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling.
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The Lord is in me, the Lord is in you,as life is in every seed, put false pride away and seek the Lord within.
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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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The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge soap cannot wash charcoal white.
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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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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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It is the spirit of the quest which helps
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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 stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail.
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The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling
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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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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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I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days and God came to me.
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