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For millions of years you have slept. This morning, will you not wake?

Kabir

Within the body there is played Music unending, though without stringed instruments That music of the Word pervades the entire creation Who listens to it is freed from all illusion.
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Body Creation Illusion Instrument Listening Music Play
Do not praise yourself not slander others: There are still many days to go and any thing could happen.
KABIR

Day Humble Praise Slander
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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Admire Criticism Fake
But if a mirror ever makes you sad you should know that it does not know you.
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Mirror Sadness Yourself
Why are we here? To become ourselves in you.
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God Ourselves Yourself
I laugh when I hear the fish in the water is thirsty.
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Laughter Thirsty Water
The essence of life is in remembering God.
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Essence God Life Remember
When the flower opens, the bees will come.
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Flower Open Willing
Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet.
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Body Place Solid Strong Yourself
For millions of years you have slept. This morning, will you not wake?
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Morning Sleep Time 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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Death Desert Scream Water Yourself
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
There’s a moon in my body, but I can’t see it! A moon and a sun. A drum never touched by hands, beating, and I can’t hear it!
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Body Hands Moon Myself Sun
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
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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Guest Intense Search Slave Willing
When you feel most alive, find out why, This is one guest you won’t greet twice.
KABIR

Alive Feeling Guest Yourself

For millions of years you have slept. This morning, will you not wake?

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