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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
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Foolish
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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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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 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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I don't think there is such a thing as an intelligent mega-rich person. For who with a fine mind can look out upon this world and hoard what can nourish a thousand souls.
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The apple blossom exists to create fruit when that comes, the petal falls.
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Only in the heart can one experience the divine presence of truth.
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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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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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Reading books everyone died, none became any wise. One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.
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The flute of the infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is love.
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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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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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Forgiveness is a game only saints play Kabir.
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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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Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.
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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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I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.
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It is the spirit of the quest which helps
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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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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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