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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!

Kabir

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
Listen, my friend. He who loves understands.
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Friendship Listening Love Understand
I don’t think there is such a thing as an intelligent mega-rich person. For who with a fine mind can look out upon this world and hoard what can nourish a thousand souls.
KABIR

Intelligence Myself Nourish Soul Thinking
The stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail.
KABIR

Service Stone Worship
When the bride is one with her lover, who cares about the wedding party?
KABIR

Bride Care Lover Party
Sing such a song with all of your heart that you’ll never have to sing again.
KABIR

Heart Singing Yourself
Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you. The one no one talks of speaks the secret sound to himself, and he is the one who has made it all.
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Himself Listening Reality Secret Sound
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
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
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
Plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is, Believe in the Great Sound!
KABIR

Finding Greatness Sound Teacher Truth
If you haven’t experienced it, it’s not true.
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Experience True Yourself
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!
KABIR

Earth Illusion Oneself Reality River Time
Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.
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Breathe God Himself Myself Student
Now I have no caste, no creed, I am no more what I am!
KABIR

Caste Myself
Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet.
KABIR

Body Place Solid Strong Yourself

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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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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