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If it were possible to meet the Beloved while laughing and in a state of comfort, why should one suffer the anguish of separation?

Kabir

Stand firm in that which you are.
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Firm Stand Yourself
But if a mirror ever makes you sad you should know that it does not know you.
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Mirror Sadness Yourself
Listen to me, my Friend! My beloved Lord is within.
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Friendship God Listening Myself
Sing such a song with all of your heart that you’ll never have to sing again.
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Heart Singing Yourself
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.
KABIR

Myself Sick Tree Wander
Are you looking for the Holy One? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours.
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Holy Shoulder Yourself
My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.
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Flash Lightening Myself Oneself Sky
The purpose of labor is to learn; when you know it, the labor is over.
KABIR

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

Control Himself Knowledge Learning Man
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
Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
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Imagination Stand Throw Yourself
I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling.
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Forest Laughter Thirsty Water Yourself
Plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is, Believe in the Great Sound!
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Finding Greatness Sound Teacher Truth
The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.
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Fools Instruction Waste White
Love does not grow on trees or brought in the market, but if one wants to be “LOVED” one must first know how to give (unconditional) LOVE.
KABIR

Growth Love Market Oneself
When the Guest is being searched for, it is the intensity of the longing for the Guest that does all the work. Look at me, and you will see a slave of that intensity.
KABIR

Guest Intense Search Slave Willing

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