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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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Weaver
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Benares
Kabir Sahib
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Water
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Fish
Fishes
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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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If you don't break your ropes while you're alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?
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The apple blossom exists to create fruit when that comes, the petal falls.
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It is the spirit of the quest which helps
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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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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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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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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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Listen to me brother! bring the vision of the Beloved in 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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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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But if a mirror ever makes you sad you should know that it does not know you.
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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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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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The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge soap cannot wash charcoal white.
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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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I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.
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I went in search of a bad person I found none as I, seeing myself, found me the worst.
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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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I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days and God came to me.
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