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I’ve burned my own house down, the torch is in my hand.Now I’ll burn down the house of anyone who wants to follow me.

Kabir

Don’t open your diamonds in a vegetable market. Tie them in bundle and keep them in your heart, and go your own way.
KABIR

Diamond Heart Market Open Way Yourself
The truth of love is the truth of the universe: it is the lamp of the soul that reveals the secrets of darkness.
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Darkness Lamp Love Secret Soul Truth Universe
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.
KABIR

Apartment Death End Finding Simplicity
One love it is that pervades the whole world, few there are who know it fully: They are blind who hope to see it by the light of reason, that reason which is the cause of separation – The house of reason is very far away!
KABIR

Away Blind Light Love Reason World
The sun is within me and so is the moon.
KABIR

Moon Myself Sun
I do not quote from the scriptures; I simply see what I see.
KABIR

Myself Quote Scripture See Simplicity
As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.
KABIR

Greatness Honey Wealth Zest
Do what you do with another human being, but never put them out of your heart.
KABIR

Heart Human 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
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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Affair Divine Existence Human Man Order Progress Rebel
Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert, when all around you there is nothing but water!
KABIR

Death Desert Scream Water Yourself
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.
KABIR

Arrogant Beloved Hide Love Power Realize Tree Yourself
The flute of the infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is love.
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Infinite Love Play Sound
A learned man’s knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn’t have control over his tongue.
KABIR

Control Himself Knowledge Learning Man
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
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

Body Dance Element Joy Play Religion Sorrow Spirit

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