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I’ve burned my own house down, the torch is in my hand.Now I’ll burn down the house of anyone who wants to follow me.

Kabir

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
As long as I talked unceasingly about the Lord,The Lord stayed away, kept at a distance.But when I silenced my mouth, sat very stillAnd fixed my mind at the doorway of the Lord,I was linked to the music of the Word,And all my talking came to an end.
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Distance End God Mindset Silence Stay Talk
The essence of life is in remembering God.
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Essence God Life Remember
A diamond was laying in the street covered with dirt. Many fools passed by. Someone who knew diamonds picked it up.
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Cover Diamond Fools Known
Nada is found within. It is a music without strings which plays in the body. It penetrates the inner and outer and leads you away from illusion.
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Body Finding Illusion Music Play
The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.
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Fools Instruction Waste White
As the river surrenders itself to the ocean, what is inside me moves inside you.
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Move River Surrender Yourself
The sun is within me and so is the moon.
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Moon Myself Sun
I laugh when I hear the fish in the water is thirsty.
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Laughter Thirsty Water
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
I do not quote from the scriptures; I simply see what I see.
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Myself Quote Scripture See Simplicity
Listen, my friend. He who loves understands.
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Friendship Listening Love Understand
Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.
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Breathe God Himself Myself Student
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
But if a mirror ever makes you sad you should know that it does not know you.
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Mirror Sadness Yourself
I went in search of a bad person; I found none as I, seeing myself, found me the worst.
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Bad Finding Myself Person Search Worst

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