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When the flower opens, the bees will come.

Kabir

I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. I laugh when I hear that people go on pilgrimage to find God.
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Finding God Laughter People Pilgrimage Water
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
When the flower opens, the bees will come.
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Flower Open Willing
The purpose of labor is to learn; when you know it, the labor is over.
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Labor Learning Over Purpose
The apple blossom exists to create fruit; when that comes, the petal falls.
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Creation Existence Fall Fruit
Listen, my friend. He who loves understands.
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Friendship Listening Love Understand
When the bride is one with her lover, who cares about the wedding party?
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Bride Care Lover Party
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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Body Finding Illusion Music Play
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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Arrogant Beloved Hide Love Power Realize Tree Yourself
The sun is within me and so is the moon.
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Moon Myself Sun
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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Enough Family God Guest Hungry Myself Provide
Take a pitcher full of water and set it down in the water-now it has water inside and water outside. We mustn’t give it a name, lest silly people start talking again about the body and the soul.
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Body Name People Soul Start Water
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
There’s a moon in my body, but I can’t see it! A moon and a sun. A drum never touched by hands, beating, and I can’t hear it!
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Body Hands Moon Myself Sun
As the river surrenders itself to the ocean, what is inside me moves inside you.
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Move River Surrender Yourself
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.
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Forest Laughter Thirsty Water Yourself

When the flower opens, the bees will come.

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