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If you don’t break your ropes while you’re alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?

Kabir

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
Do not praise yourself not slander others: There are still many days to go and any thing could happen.
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Day Humble Praise Slander
Are you looking for the Holy One? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours.
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Holy Shoulder Yourself
Take a pitcher full of water and set it down in the water-now it has water inside and water outside. We mustn’t give it a name, lest silly people start talking again about the body and the soul.
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Body Name People Soul Start Water
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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Diamond Heart Market Open Way Yourself
When you feel most alive, find out why, This is one guest you won’t greet twice.
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Alive Feeling Guest Yourself
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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Enough Family God Guest Hungry Myself Provide
Do not go to the garden of flowers! O friend! go not there; In your body is the garden of flowers. Take your seat on the thousand petals of the lotus, and there gaze on the infinite beauty.
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Beautiful Flower Friendship Garden Infinite
Lift the veil that obscures the heart, and there you will find what you are looking for.
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Finding Heart Willing 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!
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Distance Myself Smile Water
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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God Himself Immortal Kind Man Passive Practice Right
The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling.
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Counseling Need Professional Serious Thirsty Water
Wear a crown of flowers on your head, let its roots reach your heart.
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Crown Flower Head Heart Reach Root Yourself
I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling.
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Forest Laughter Thirsty Water Yourself
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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Darkness Lamp Love Secret Soul Truth Universe
My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.
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Flash Lightening Myself Oneself Sky

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