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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
Poet
Weaver
Writer
Benares
Kabir Sahib
Wash
Soap
Instruction
Foolish
Waste
Knowledge
White
Cannot
Charcoal

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I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.
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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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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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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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If you don't break your ropes while you're alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?
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When the flower opens, the bees will come.
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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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I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days and God came to me.
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Do what you do with another human being, but never put them out of your heart.
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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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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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Don't open your diamonds in a vegetable market. Tie them in bundle and keep them in your heart, and go your own way.
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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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Only in the heart can one experience the divine presence of truth.
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It is the spirit of the quest which helps
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Wear a crown of flowers on your head, let its roots reach your heart
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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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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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Listen to your own Self. If you listen to that Self within, then you find the Truth.
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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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