If you don’t break your ropes while you’re alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?
KABIRThe 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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Nada is found within. It is a music without strings which plays in the body. It penetrates the inner and outer and leads you away from illusion.
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But if a mirror ever makes you sad you should know that it does not know you.
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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.
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Do what you do with another human being, but never put them out of your heart.
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I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days and God came to me.
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Listen, my friend. He who loves understands.
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Do not keep the slanderer away, treat him with affection and honor: Body and soul, he scours all clean, babbling about this and that.
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The river that flows in you also flows in me.
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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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If you make love with the divine now, in the next life you will have the face of satisfied desire.
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There is no river at all, and no boat, and no boatman. There is not even a rope to tow the boat, and no one to pull it. There is no earth, no sky, no time, no thing, no shore, no ford!
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As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.
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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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Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.
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Stand firm in that which you are.
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The savor of wandering in the ocean of deathless life has rid me of all my asking: As the tree is in the seed, so all diseases are in this asking.
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I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.
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The apple blossom exists to create fruit; when that comes, the petal falls.
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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.
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The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.
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Wherever you are, that’s the entry point.
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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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Love does not grow on trees or brought in the market, but if one wants to be “LOVED” one must first know how to give (unconditional) LOVE.
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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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If you haven’t experienced it, it’s not true.
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All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
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