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I laugh when I hear the fish in the water is thirsty.

Kabir

I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. You don’t grasp the fact that what is most alive of all is inside your own house; and so you walk from one holy city to the next with a confused look!
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Confusion Factor Holy Home Laughter Walk Water Yourself
The sun is within me and so is the moon.
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Moon Myself Sun
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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Guest Intense Search Slave Willing
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
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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Body Himself Honor Soul Treat
All darkness vanished, when I saw the Lamp within my heart.
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Darkness Heart Myself
Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you. The one no one talks of speaks the secret sound to himself, and he is the one who has made it all.
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Himself Listening Reality Secret Sound
If you don’t break your ropes while you’re alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?
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Alive Break Ghost Willing
Only in the heart can one experience the divine presence of truth.
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Divine Experience Heart Presence Truth
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
All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
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Deep Known Ocean
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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Admire Criticism Fake
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
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
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
Music without words means leaving behind the mind. And leaving behind the mind is meditation. Meditation returns you to the source. And the source of all is sound.
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Leaving Mindset Music Source Word Yourself

I laugh when I hear the fish in the water is thirsty.

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