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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
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Kabir Sahib
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The Beloved is inside you and also inside me. You know the tree is hidden inside the seed. Let your arrogance go. None of us has gone far. Inside love there is more power than we realize.
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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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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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But if a mirror ever makes you sad you should know that it does not know you.
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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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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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I've burned my own house down, the torch is in my hand.Now I'll burn down the house of anyone who wants to follow me.
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The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling
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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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If you don't break your ropes while you're alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?
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Now I have no caste, no creed, I am no more what I am!
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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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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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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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Wear a crown of flowers on your head, let its roots reach your heart
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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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My heart is so intoxicated with love that I have no wish to speak.
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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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I do not quote from the scriptures I simply see what I see.
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