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Kabir
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Kabir
Age: 78 †
Born: 1440
Born: January 1
Died: 1518
Died: January 1
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Kabir Sahib
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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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I do not quote from the scriptures I simply see what I see.
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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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It is the spirit of the quest which helps
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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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When the flower opens, the bees will come.
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Plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is, Believe in the Great Sound!
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I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.
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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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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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As long as I talked unceasingly about the Lord,The Lord stayed away, kept at a distance.But when I silenced my mouth, sat very stillAnd fixed my mind at the doorway of the Lord,I was linked to the music of the Word,And all my talking came to an end.
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Do not praise yourself not slander others: There are still many days to go and any thing could happen.
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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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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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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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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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Listen to me brother! bring the vision of the Beloved in your heart
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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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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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Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.
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