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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

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
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.
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Apartment Death End Finding Simplicity
The essence of life is in remembering God.
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Essence God Life Remember
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
As long as a human being worries about when he will die, and what he has that is his, all of his works are zero. When affection for the I-creature and what it owns is dead, then the work of the Teacher is over.
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Affection Creature Death Human Myself Teacher Worry
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
The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.
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Fools Instruction Waste White
Listen to me brother! bring the vision of the Beloved in your heart.
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Beloved Heart Listening Myself Vision
Listen, my friend. He who loves understands.
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Friendship Listening Love Understand
When the bride is one with her lover, who cares about the wedding party?
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Bride Care Lover Party
As the river surrenders itself to the ocean, what is inside me moves inside you.
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Move River Surrender Yourself
The 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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Darkness Lamp Love Secret Soul Truth Universe
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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Body Name People Soul Start Water
I laugh when I hear the fish in the water is thirsty.
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Laughter Thirsty Water
Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet.
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Body Place Solid Strong Yourself
My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.
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Flash Lightening Myself Oneself Sky
Do you believe there is some place that will make thesoul less thirsty? In that great absence you will find nothing.
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Absence Believe Finding Greatness Place Soul Willing Yourself
My heart is so intoxicated with love that I have no wish to speak.
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Heart Love Myself Talk
Only in the heart can one experience the divine presence of truth.
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Divine Experience Heart Presence Truth
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
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.
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Fake God Life Pride Yourself
I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days and God came to me.
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Day Feeling God Greatness Myself Pilgrimage
The stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail.
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Service Stone Worship
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
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
Do not go to the garden of flowers! O friend! go not there; In your body is the garden of flowers. Take your seat on the thousand petals of the lotus, and there gaze on the infinite beauty.
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Beautiful Flower Friendship Garden Infinite
Listen to your own Self. If you listen to that Self within, then you find the Truth.
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Finding Listening Truth 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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