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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
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Flower
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Bees

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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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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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Plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is, Believe in the Great Sound!
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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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Do what you do with another human being, but never put them out of your heart.
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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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Reading books everyone died, none became any wise. One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.
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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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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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Do not praise yourself not slander others: There are still many days to go and any thing could happen.
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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 stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail.
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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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The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling
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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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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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But if a mirror ever makes you sad you should know that it does not know you.
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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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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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