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I am not a Hindu, Nor a Muslim, I am this body, a play Of five elements a drama Of the spirit dancing With joy and sorrow.

Kabir

All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
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Deep Known Ocean
I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.
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Blind City Mirrors Myself
Listen to me, my Friend! My beloved Lord is within.
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Friendship God Listening Myself
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.
KABIR

God Himself Immortal Kind Man Passive Practice Right
Listen to your own Self. If you listen to that Self within, then you find the Truth.
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Finding Listening Truth Yourself
If you make love with the divine now, in the next life you will have the face of satisfied desire.
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Desire Divine Face Love Satisfaction
Sing such a song with all of your heart that you’ll never have to sing again.
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Heart Singing Yourself
I do not quote from the scriptures; I simply see what I see.
KABIR

Myself Quote Scripture See Simplicity
Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet. Think about it carefully! Don’t go off somewhere else! just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
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Body Firm Imagination Place Solid Stand Strong Yourself
Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain.
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Death Remain Wisdom World
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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Design God Paint Weird Yourself
If it were possible to meet the Beloved while laughing and in a state of comfort, why should one suffer the anguish of separation?
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Anguish Comfort Laughter Possible Separate State Suffering White
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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Admire Criticism Fake
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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Myself Sick Tree Wander
I laugh when I hear the fish in the water is thirsty.
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Laughter Thirsty Water
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.
KABIR

Forest Laughter Thirsty Water Yourself

I am not a Hindu, Nor a Muslim, I am this body, a play Of five elements a drama Of the spirit dancing With joy and sorrow.

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I am not a Hindu, Nor a Muslim, I am this body, a play Of five elements a drama Of the spirit dancing With joy and sorrow.

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