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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
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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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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I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.
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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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Now I have no caste, no creed, I am no more what I am!
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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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The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling
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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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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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Nada is found within. It is a music without strings which plays in the body. It penetrates the inner and outer and leads you away from illusion.
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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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Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.
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I do not quote from the scriptures I simply see what I see.
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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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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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Within the body there is played Music unending, though without stringed instruments That music of the Word pervades the entire creation Who listens to it is freed from all illusion
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Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.
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I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days and God came to me.
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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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Reading books everyone died, none became any wise. One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.
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There is no river at all, and no boat, and no boatman. There is not even a rope to tow the boat, and no one to pull it. There is no earth, no sky, no time, no thing, no shore, no ford!
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