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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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Benares
Kabir Sahib
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Tongue
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Now I have no caste, no creed, I am no more what I am!
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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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Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.
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The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge soap cannot wash charcoal white.
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Listen to me brother! bring the vision of the Beloved in your heart
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Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
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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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When the flower opens, the bees will come.
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When you feel most alive, find out why, This is one guest you won't greet twice.
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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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The apple blossom exists to create fruit when that comes, the petal falls.
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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 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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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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Though One Brahman is the Cause of the Many. ... Behold but One in all things it is the second that leads you astray.
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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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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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Plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is, Believe in the Great Sound!
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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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