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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.

Kabir

If you don’t break your ropes while you’re alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?
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Alive Break Ghost Willing
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
Do what you do with another human being, but never put them out of your heart.
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Heart Human Yourself
Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.
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Breathe God Himself Myself Student
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
My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.
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Flash Lightening Myself Oneself Sky
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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Apartment Death End Finding 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
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
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
Lift the veil that obscures the heart, and there you will find what you are looking for.
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Finding Heart Willing Yourself
As long as a human being worries about when he will die, and what he has that is his, all of his works are zero. When affection for the I-creature and what it owns is dead, then the work of the Teacher is over.
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Affection Creature Death Human Myself Teacher Worry
Seeking Why run around sprinkling holy water? There’s an ocean inside you, and when you’re ready you’ll drink.
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Drink Ocean Run Water Yourself
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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Direction Journey Leadership Reason
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 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.
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Intelligence Myself Nourish Soul Thinking

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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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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