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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.

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.
KABIR

Body Creation Illusion Instrument Listening Music Play
A learned man’s knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn’t have control over his tongue.
KABIR

Control Himself Knowledge Learning Man
Do not keep the slanderer away, treat him with affection and honor: Body and soul, he scours all clean, babbling about this and that.
KABIR

Body Himself Honor Soul Treat
A diamond was laying in the street covered with dirt. Many fools passed by. Someone who knew diamonds picked it up.
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Cover Diamond Fools Known
The apple blossom exists to create fruit; when that comes, the petal falls.
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Creation Existence Fall Fruit
I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days and God came to me.
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Day Feeling God Greatness Myself Pilgrimage
Listen to your own Self. If you listen to that Self within, then you find the Truth.
KABIR

Finding Listening Truth 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.
KABIR

Guest Intense Search Slave Willing
The purpose of labor is to learn; when you know it, the labor is over.
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Labor Learning Over Purpose
When the flower opens, the bees will come.
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Flower Open Willing
I laugh when I hear the fish in the water is thirsty.
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Laughter Thirsty Water
The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling.
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Counseling Need Professional Serious Thirsty Water
Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet. Think about it carefully! Don’t go off somewhere else! just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
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Body Firm Imagination Place Solid Stand Strong Yourself
Why are we here? To become ourselves in you.
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God Ourselves Yourself
Faith,Waiting in the heart of a seed, Promises a miracle of life which cannot prove at once.
KABIR

Evidence Faith Heart Miracle Promise Wait
What is a holy person? The one who is aware of others’ suffering.
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Aware Oneself Person Suffering

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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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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