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Only in the heart can one experience the divine presence of truth.

Kabir

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Kabir
Age: 78 †
Born: 1440
Born: January 1
Died: 1518
Died: January 1
Philosopher
Poet
Weaver
Writer
Benares
Kabir Sahib
Presence
Divine
Experience
Truth
Heart

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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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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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The flute of the infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is love.
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I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.
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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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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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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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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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Music without words means leaving behind the mind. And leaving behind the mind is meditation. Meditation returns you to the source. And the source of all is sound.
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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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Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.
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Wear a crown of flowers on your head, let its roots reach your heart
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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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A learned man's knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn't have control over his tongue
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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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But if a mirror ever makes you sad you should know that it does not know you.
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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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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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God, provide me with enough sustenance that my family is taken care of, that neither I remain hungry, nor does my guest go unfed.
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