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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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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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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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If you don't break your ropes while you're alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?
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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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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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Only in the heart can one experience the divine presence of truth.
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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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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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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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My heart is so intoxicated with love that I have no wish to speak.
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