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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

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
Why are we here? To become ourselves in you.
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God Ourselves Yourself
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
If you haven’t experienced it, it’s not true.
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Experience True Yourself
All darkness vanished, when I saw the Lamp within my heart.
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Darkness Heart Myself
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
I do not quote from the scriptures; I simply see what I see.
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Myself Quote Scripture See Simplicity
If you want the truth, I’ll tell you the truth. Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you.
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Listening Reality Secret Truth 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.
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Body Dance Element Joy Play Religion Sorrow Spirit
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?
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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.
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Arrogant Beloved Hide Love Power Realize Tree Yourself
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
I don’t think there is such a thing as an intelligent mega-rich person. For who with a fine mind can look out upon this world and hoard what can nourish a thousand souls.
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Intelligence Myself Nourish Soul Thinking
But if a mirror ever makes you sad you should know that it does not know you.
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Mirror Sadness Yourself
Lift the veil that obscures the heart, and there you will find what you are looking for.
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Finding Heart Willing Yourself
Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.
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Breathe God Himself Myself Student

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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