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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

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?
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Design God Paint Weird Yourself
The external forces conceal from the eyes the deep meaning of existence; True faith resides in the heart.
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Existence Eyes Faith Force Heart Meaning
Lift the veil that obscures the heart, and there you will find what you are looking for.
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Finding Heart Willing Yourself
What is a holy person? The one who is aware of others’ suffering.
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Aware Oneself Person Suffering
If you want the truth, I’ll tell you the truth. Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you.
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Listening Reality Secret Truth 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.
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Burn Follow Hands Home Myself
Listen to me, my Friend! My beloved Lord is within.
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Friendship God Listening Myself
Don’t open your diamonds in a vegetable market. Tie them in bundle and keep them in your heart, and go your own way.
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Diamond Heart Market Open Way Yourself
Faith,Waiting in the heart of a seed, Promises a miracle of life which cannot prove at once.
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Evidence Faith Heart Miracle Promise Wait
The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling.
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Counseling Need Professional Serious Thirsty Water
There’s a moon in my body, but I can’t see it! A moon and a sun. A drum never touched by hands, beating, and I can’t hear it!
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Body Hands Moon Myself Sun
The apple blossom exists to create fruit; when that comes, the petal falls.
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Creation Existence Fall Fruit
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
Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
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Imagination Stand Throw Yourself
Sing such a song with all of your heart that you’ll never have to sing again.
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Heart Singing Yourself
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
As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.
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Greatness Honey Wealth Zest
I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days and God came to me.
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Day Feeling God Greatness Myself Pilgrimage
Now I have no caste, no creed, I am no more what I am!
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Caste Myself
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!
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Earth Illusion Oneself Reality River Time
Listen to your own Self. If you listen to that Self within, then you find the Truth.
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Finding Listening Truth Yourself
Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain.
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Death Remain Wisdom World
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
All darkness vanished, when I saw the Lamp within my heart.
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Darkness Heart Myself
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
Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet.
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Body Place Solid Strong Yourself
As long as a human being worries about when he will die, and what he has that is his, all of his works are zero. When affection for the I-creature and what it owns is dead, then the work of the Teacher is over.
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Affection Creature Death Human Myself Teacher Worry

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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