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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.

Kabir

Do not keep the slanderer away, treat him with affection and honor: Body and soul, he scours all clean, babbling about this and that.
KABIR

Body Himself Honor Soul Treat
When you feel most alive, find out why, This is one guest you won’t greet twice.
KABIR

Alive Feeling Guest Yourself
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.
KABIR

Distance End God Mindset Silence Stay Talk
Go over and over your beads, paint weird designs on your forehead, wear your hear matted, long, and ostentatious, but when deep inside you there is a loaded gun, how can you have God?
KABIR

Design God Paint Weird Yourself
I am not a Hindu, Nor a Muslim, I am this body, a play Of five elements a drama Of the spirit dancing With joy and sorrow.
KABIR

Body Dance Element Joy Play Religion Sorrow Spirit
Be quiet in your mind, quiet in your senses, and also quiet in your body. Then, when all these are quiet, don’t do anything. In that state truth will reveal itself to you.
KABIR

Body Mindset Quiet Truth Yourself
The Lord is in me, the Lord is in you,as life is in every seed, put false pride away and seek the Lord within.
KABIR

Fake God Life Pride Yourself
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.
KABIR

Leaving Mindset Music Source Word Yourself
If you don’t break your ropes while you’re alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?
KABIR

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

Morning Sleep Time 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!
KABIR

Body Hands Moon Myself Sun
Reading books everyone died, none became any wise. One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.
KABIR

Book Oneself Reading Wisdom
Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet.
KABIR

Body Place Solid Strong Yourself
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.
KABIR

Himself Listening Reality Secret Sound
When the flower opens, the bees will come.
KABIR

Flower Open Willing
God, provide me with enough sustenance that my family is taken care of, that neither I remain hungry, nor does my guest go unfed.
KABIR

Enough Family God Guest Hungry Myself Provide

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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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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