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Sing such a song with all of your heart that you’ll never have to sing again.

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There is no river at all, and no boat, and no boatman. There is not even a rope to tow the boat, and no one to pull it. There is no earth, no sky, no time, no thing, no shore, no ford!
KABIR

Earth Illusion Oneself Reality River Time
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
Wear a crown of flowers on your head, let its roots reach your heart.
KABIR

Crown Flower Head Heart Reach Root 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.
KABIR

Guest Intense Search Slave Willing
A learned man’s knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn’t have control over his tongue.
KABIR

Control Himself Knowledge Learning Man
But if a mirror ever makes you sad you should know that it does not know you.
KABIR

Mirror Sadness Yourself
The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling.
KABIR

Counseling Need Professional Serious Thirsty Water
Men have always looked before and after, and rebelled against the existing order. But for their divine discontent, men would not have been men, and there would have been no progress in human affairs.
KABIR

Affair Divine Existence Human Man Order Progress Rebel
If it were possible to meet the Beloved while laughing and in a state of comfort, why should one suffer the anguish of separation?
KABIR

Anguish Comfort Laughter Possible Separate State Suffering White
The stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail.
KABIR

Service Stone Worship
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.
KABIR

Intelligence Myself Nourish Soul Thinking
I laugh when I hear the fish in the water is thirsty.
KABIR

Laughter Thirsty Water
The purpose of labor is to learn; when you know it, the labor is over.
KABIR

Labor Learning Over Purpose
For millions of years you have slept. This morning, will you not wake?
KABIR

Morning Sleep Time Yourself
Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.
KABIR

Breathe God Himself Myself Student
Though One Brahman is the Cause of the Many. Behold but One in all things it is the second that leads you astray.
KABIR

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