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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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Do what you do with another human being, but never put them out of your heart.
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Plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is, Believe in the Great Sound!
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When you feel most alive, find out why, This is one guest you won't greet twice.
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There is no river at all, and no boat, and no boatman. There is not even a rope to tow the boat, and no one to pull it. There is no earth, no sky, no time, no thing, no shore, no ford!
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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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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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All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
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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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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 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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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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As the river surrenders itself to the ocean, what is inside me moves inside you.
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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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But if a mirror ever makes you sad you should know that it does not know you.
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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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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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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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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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I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days and God came to me.
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