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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!

Kabir

Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain.
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Death Remain Wisdom World
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.
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Distance End God Mindset Silence Stay Talk
Only in the heart can one experience the divine presence of truth.
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Divine Experience Heart Presence Truth
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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Arrogant Beloved Hide Love Power Realize Tree Yourself
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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Body Hands Moon Myself Sun
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
It is the spirit of the quest which helps.
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Help One Liner Quest Spirit
If you make love with the divine now, in the next life you will have the face of satisfied desire.
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Desire Divine Face Love Satisfaction
The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.
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Fools Instruction Waste White
I don’t think there is such a thing as an intelligent mega-rich person. For who with a fine mind can look out upon this world and hoard what can nourish a thousand souls.
KABIR

Intelligence Myself Nourish Soul Thinking
Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
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Imagination Stand Throw Yourself
Listen, my friend. He who loves understands.
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Friendship Listening Love Understand
Listen to your own Self. If you listen to that Self within, then you find the Truth.
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Finding Listening Truth Yourself
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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Affection Creature Death Human Myself Teacher Worry
Now I have no caste, no creed, I am no more what I am!
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Caste Myself
If you want the truth, I’ll tell you the truth. Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you.
KABIR

Listening Reality Secret Truth Yourself

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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