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Listen to your own Self. If you listen to that Self within, then you find the Truth.

Kabir

Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.
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Admire Criticism Fake
If it were possible to meet the Beloved while laughing and in a state of comfort, why should one suffer the anguish of separation?
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Anguish Comfort Laughter Possible Separate State Suffering White
The savor of wandering in the ocean of deathless life has rid me of all my asking: As the tree is in the seed, so all diseases are in this asking.
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Myself Sick Tree Wander
If you make love with the divine now, in the next life you will have the face of satisfied desire.
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Desire Divine Face Love Satisfaction
Listen to me brother! bring the vision of the Beloved in your heart.
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Beloved Heart Listening Myself Vision
The purpose of labor is to learn; when you know it, the labor is over.
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Labor Learning Over Purpose
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
If you don’t break your ropes while you’re alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?
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Alive Break Ghost Willing
If you haven’t experienced it, it’s not true.
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Experience True Yourself
Wear a crown of flowers on your head, let its roots reach your heart.
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Crown Flower Head Heart Reach Root 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
I do not quote from the scriptures; I simply see what I see.
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Myself Quote Scripture See Simplicity
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
What is a holy person? The one who is aware of others’ suffering.
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Aware Oneself Person Suffering
Only in the heart can one experience the divine presence of truth.
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Divine Experience Heart Presence Truth
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

Listen to your own Self. If you listen to that Self within, then you find the Truth.

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