For millions of years you have slept. This morning, will you not wake?
KABIRAs 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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Wear a crown of flowers on your head, let its roots reach your heart.
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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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The apple blossom exists to create fruit; when that comes, the petal falls.
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Listen to your own Self. If you listen to that Self within, then you find the Truth.
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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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The man who is kind and who practices righteousness, who remains passive against the affairs of the world, who considers all creatures on earth as his own self, he attains the Immortal Being; the true God is ever with him.
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All darkness vanished, when I saw the Lamp within my heart.
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Listen to me brother! bring the vision of the Beloved in your heart.
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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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I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. You don’t grasp the fact that what is most alive of all is inside your own house; and so you walk from one holy city to the next with a confused look!
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Do not praise yourself not slander others: There are still many days to go and any thing could happen.
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The river that flows in you also flows in me.
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As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.
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Lift the veil that obscures the heart, and there you will find what you are looking for.
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If you don’t break your ropes while you’re alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?
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My heart is so intoxicated with love that I have no wish to speak.
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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!
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The truth of love is the truth of the universe: it is the lamp of the soul that reveals the secrets of darkness.
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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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I do not quote from the scriptures; I simply see what I see.
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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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Plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is, Believe in the Great Sound!
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Don’t open your diamonds in a vegetable market. Tie them in bundle and keep them in your heart, and go your own way.
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If it were possible to meet the Beloved while laughing and in a state of comfort, why should one suffer the anguish of separation?
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Now I have no caste, no creed, I am no more what I am!
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Faith,Waiting in the heart of a seed, Promises a miracle of life which cannot prove at once.
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