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The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge soap cannot wash charcoal white.
Kabir
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Kabir
Age: 78 †
Born: 1440
Born: January 1
Died: 1518
Died: January 1
Philosopher
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Kabir Sahib
Foolish
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My heart is so intoxicated with love that I have no wish to speak.
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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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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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It is the spirit of the quest which helps
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The Lord is in me, the Lord is in you,as life is in every seed, put false pride away and seek the Lord within.
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Wear a crown of flowers on your head, let its roots reach your heart
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Wherever you are is the entry point.
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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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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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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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Forgiveness is a game only saints play Kabir.
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I do not quote from the scriptures I simply see what I see.
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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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Plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is, Believe in the Great Sound!
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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 sell mirrors in the city of the blind.
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The essence of life is in remembering God.
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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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The stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail.
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