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.
KABIRGo 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?
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The Lord is in me, the Lord is in you,as life is in every seed, put false pride away and seek the Lord within.
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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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My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.
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It is the spirit of the quest which helps.
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Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.
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Do you believe there is some place that will make thesoul less thirsty? In that great absence you will find nothing.
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Why are we here? To become ourselves in you.
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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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Reading books everyone died, none became any wise. One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.
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I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.
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A learned man’s knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn’t have control over his tongue.
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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!
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Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
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All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
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The apple blossom exists to create fruit; when that comes, the petal falls.
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