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Path presupposes distance; If He be near, no path needest thou at all. Verily it maketh me smile To hear of a fish in water athirst!

Kabir

The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.
KABIR

Fools Instruction Waste White
Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you. The one no one talks of speaks the secret sound to himself, and he is the one who has made it all.
KABIR

Himself Listening Reality Secret Sound
Are you looking for the Holy One? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours.
KABIR

Holy Shoulder Yourself
Do not praise yourself not slander others: There are still many days to go and any thing could happen.
KABIR

Day Humble Praise Slander
Plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is, Believe in the Great Sound!
KABIR

Finding Greatness Sound Teacher Truth
Listen to your own Self. If you listen to that Self within, then you find the Truth.
KABIR

Finding Listening Truth Yourself
Don’t open your diamonds in a vegetable market. Tie them in bundle and keep them in your heart, and go your own way.
KABIR

Diamond Heart Market Open Way Yourself
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

Burn Follow Hands Home Myself
One love it is that pervades the whole world, few there are who know it fully: They are blind who hope to see it by the light of reason, that reason which is the cause of separation – The house of reason is very far away!
KABIR

Away Blind Light Love Reason World
I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. I laugh when I hear that people go on pilgrimage to find God.
KABIR

Finding God Laughter People Pilgrimage Water
Within the body there is played Music unending, though without stringed instruments That music of the Word pervades the entire creation Who listens to it is freed from all illusion.
KABIR

Body Creation Illusion Instrument Listening Music Play
It is the spirit of the quest which helps.
KABIR

Help One Liner Quest Spirit
If you make love with the divine now, in the next life you will have the face of satisfied desire.
KABIR

Desire Divine Face Love Satisfaction
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
God, provide me with enough sustenance that my family is taken care of, that neither I remain hungry, nor does my guest go unfed.
KABIR

Enough Family God Guest Hungry Myself Provide
Do not keep the slanderer away, treat him with affection and honor: Body and soul, he scours all clean, babbling about this and that.
KABIR

Body Himself Honor Soul Treat

Path presupposes distance; If He be near, no path needest thou at all. Verily it maketh me smile To hear of a fish in water athirst!

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Path presupposes distance; If He be near, no path needest thou at all. Verily it maketh me smile To hear of a fish in water athirst!

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