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I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days and God came to me.

Kabir

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

Morning Sleep Time Yourself
Men have always looked before and after, and rebelled against the existing order. But for their divine discontent, men would not have been men, and there would have been no progress in human affairs.
KABIR

Affair Divine Existence Human Man Order Progress Rebel
Plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is, Believe in the Great Sound!
KABIR

Finding Greatness Sound Teacher Truth
Are you looking for the Holy One? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours.
KABIR

Holy Shoulder Yourself
What is found now is found then. If you find nothing now, you will simply end up with an apartment in the City of Death.
KABIR

Apartment Death End Finding Simplicity
One love it is that pervades the whole world, few there are who know it fully: They are blind who hope to see it by the light of reason, that reason which is the cause of separation – The house of reason is very far away!
KABIR

Away Blind Light Love Reason World
Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert, when all around you there is nothing but water!
KABIR

Death Desert Scream Water Yourself
The purpose of labor is to learn; when you know it, the labor is over.
KABIR

Labor Learning Over Purpose
Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
KABIR

Imagination Stand Throw Yourself
My heart is so intoxicated with love that I have no wish to speak.
KABIR

Heart Love Myself Talk
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.
KABIR

Forest Laughter Thirsty Water Yourself
Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet.
KABIR

Body Place Solid Strong Yourself
Now I have no caste, no creed, I am no more what I am!
KABIR

Caste Myself
The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.
KABIR

Fools Instruction Waste White
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 sun is within me and so is the moon.
KABIR

Moon Myself Sun

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