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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.

Kabir

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
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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Finding God Laughter People Pilgrimage Water
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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Death Desert Scream Water 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.
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Affair Divine Existence Human Man Order Progress Rebel
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
The flute of the infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is love.
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Infinite Love Play Sound
Seeking Why run around sprinkling holy water? There’s an ocean inside you, and when you’re ready you’ll drink.
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Drink Ocean Run Water Yourself
Do what you do with another human being, but never put them out of your heart.
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Heart Human Yourself
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
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
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
Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.
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Breathe God Himself Myself Student
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
Listen to me brother! bring the vision of the Beloved in your heart.
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Beloved Heart Listening Myself Vision
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

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