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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

Listen to me, my Friend! My beloved Lord is within.
KABIR

Friendship God Listening Myself
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
Are you looking for the Holy One? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours.
KABIR

Holy Shoulder Yourself
I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.
KABIR

Blind City Mirrors Myself
The essence of life is in remembering God.
KABIR

Essence God Life Remember
I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling.
KABIR

Forest Laughter Thirsty Water Yourself
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.
KABIR

Finding God Laughter People Pilgrimage Water
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
Listen, my friend. He who loves understands.
KABIR

Friendship Listening Love Understand
What is found now is found then. If you find nothing now, you will simply end up with an apartment in the City of Death.
KABIR

Apartment Death End Finding Simplicity
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
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.
KABIR

Arrogant Beloved Hide Love Power Realize Tree Yourself
My heart is so intoxicated with love that I have no wish to speak.
KABIR

Heart Love Myself Talk
Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
KABIR

Imagination Stand Throw 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
Plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is, Believe in the Great Sound!
KABIR

Finding Greatness Sound Teacher Truth

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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