As long as I talked unceasingly about the Lord,The Lord stayed away, kept at a distance.But when I silenced my mouth, sat very stillAnd fixed my mind at the doorway of the Lord,I was linked to the music of the Word,And all my talking came to an end.
KABIRWhat is a holy person? The one who is aware of others’ suffering.
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The apple blossom exists to create fruit; when that comes, the petal falls.
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Listen to me brother! bring the vision of the Beloved in your heart.
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Do what you do with another human being, but never put them out of your heart.
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All darkness vanished, when I saw the Lamp within my heart.
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When the Guest is being searched for, it is the intensity of the longing for the Guest that does all the work. Look at me, and you will see a slave of that intensity.
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Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet.
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Listen to me, my Friend! My beloved Lord is within.
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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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The stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail.
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It is the spirit of the quest which helps.
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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!
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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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My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.
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The external forces conceal from the eyes the deep meaning of existence; True faith resides in the heart.
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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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