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The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling
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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Water
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Thirsty
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Fishes
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My heart is so intoxicated with love that I have no wish to speak.
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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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All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
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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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