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Wear a crown of flowers on your head, let its roots reach your heart
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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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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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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Listen to your own Self. If you listen to that Self within, then you find the Truth.
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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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The stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail.
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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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Be quiet in your mind, quiet in your senses, and also quiet in your body. Then, when all these are quiet, don't do anything. In that state truth will reveal itself to you.
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Seeking Why run around sprinkling holy water? There's an ocean inside you, and when you're ready you'll drink.
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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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Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
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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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Only in the heart can one experience the divine presence of truth.
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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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Listen to me brother! bring the vision of the Beloved in your heart
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Do not keep the slanderer away, treat him with affection and honor: Body and soul, he scours all clean, babbling about this and that.
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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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Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.
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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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I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. You don't grasp the fact that what is most alive of all is inside your own house and so you walk from one holy city to the next with a confused look!
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