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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!
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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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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Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
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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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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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I do not quote from the scriptures I simply see what I see.
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Wear a crown of flowers on your head, let its roots reach your heart
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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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The stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail.
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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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I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.
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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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All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
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When the flower opens, the bees will come.
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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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Reading books everyone died, none became any wise. One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.
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It is the spirit of the quest which helps
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Listen to me brother! bring the vision of the Beloved in your heart
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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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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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Only in the heart can one experience the divine presence of truth.
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