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When the flower opens, the bees will come.

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Kabir
Age: 78 †
Born: 1440
Born: January 1
Died: 1518
Died: January 1
Philosopher
Poet
Weaver
Writer
Benares
Kabir Sahib
Bees
Opens
Flower
Come

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Wear a crown of flowers on your head, let its roots reach your heart
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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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The stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail.
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I do not quote from the scriptures I simply see what I see.
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Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
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Wherever you are is the entry point.
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Plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is, Believe in the Great Sound!
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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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Music without words means leaving behind the mind. And leaving behind the mind is meditation. Meditation returns you to the source. And the source of all is sound.
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Do you believe there is some place that will make thesoul less thirsty? In that great absence you will find nothing.
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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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If you don't break your ropes while you're alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?
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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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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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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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As the river surrenders itself to the ocean, what is inside me moves inside you.
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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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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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