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Wear a crown of flowers on your head, let its roots reach your heart

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Kabir
Age: 78 †
Born: 1440
Born: January 1
Died: 1518
Died: January 1
Philosopher
Poet
Weaver
Writer
Benares
Kabir Sahib
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Heart
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Crowns
Flowers
Roots
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The apple blossom exists to create fruit when that comes, the petal falls.
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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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Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.
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When the flower opens, the bees will come.
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My heart is so intoxicated with love that I have no wish to speak.
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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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Reading books everyone died, none became any wise. One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.
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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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Path presupposes distance If He be near, no path needest thou at all. Verily it maketh me smile To hear of a fish in water athirst!
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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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Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
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I do not quote from the scriptures I simply see what I see.
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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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A learned man's knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn't have control over his tongue
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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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As the river surrenders itself to the ocean, what is inside me moves inside you.
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Wherever you are is the entry point.
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