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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

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.
KABIR

Affair Divine Existence Human Man Order Progress Rebel
Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
KABIR

Imagination Stand Throw Yourself
Sing such a song with all of your heart that you’ll never have to sing again.
KABIR

Heart Singing Yourself
The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.
KABIR

Fools Instruction Waste White
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
Reading books everyone died, none became any wise. One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.
KABIR

Book Oneself Reading Wisdom
If you don’t break your ropes while you’re alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?
KABIR

Alive Break Ghost Willing
I do not quote from the scriptures; I simply see what I see.
KABIR

Myself Quote Scripture See Simplicity
If you make love with the divine now, in the next life you will have the face of satisfied desire.
KABIR

Desire Divine Face Love Satisfaction
Go over and over your beads, paint weird designs on your forehead, wear your hear matted, long, and ostentatious, but when deep inside you there is a loaded gun, how can you have God?
KABIR

Design God Paint Weird Yourself
As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.
KABIR

Greatness Honey Wealth Zest
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
I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.
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Blind City Mirrors Myself
Why are we here? To become ourselves in you.
KABIR

God Ourselves Yourself
Path presupposes distance; If He be near, no path needest thou at all. Verily it maketh me smile To hear of a fish in water athirst!
KABIR

Distance Myself Smile Water
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.
KABIR

Affection Creature Death Human Myself Teacher Worry

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