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A learned man’s knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn’t have control over his tongue.

Kabir

Reading books everyone died, none became any wise. One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.
KABIR

Book Oneself Reading Wisdom
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?
KABIR

Design God Paint Weird Yourself
My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.
KABIR

Flash Lightening Myself Oneself Sky
Plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is, Believe in the Great Sound!
KABIR

Finding Greatness Sound Teacher Truth
Faith,Waiting in the heart of a seed, Promises a miracle of life which cannot prove at once.
KABIR

Evidence Faith Heart Miracle Promise Wait
Listen, my friend. He who loves understands.
KABIR

Friendship Listening Love Understand
But if a mirror ever makes you sad you should know that it does not know you.
KABIR

Mirror Sadness Yourself
The river that flows in you also flows in me.
KABIR

Flow River Yourself
For millions of years you have slept. This morning, will you not wake?
KABIR

Morning Sleep Time Yourself
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
When the flower opens, the bees will come.
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Flower Open Willing
As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.
KABIR

Greatness Honey Wealth Zest
Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.
KABIR

Breathe God Himself Myself Student
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.
KABIR

Body Finding Illusion Music Play
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
Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet. Think about it carefully! Don’t go off somewhere else! just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
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Body Firm Imagination Place Solid Stand Strong Yourself

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