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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

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
Listen to me brother! bring the vision of the Beloved in your heart.
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Beloved Heart Listening Myself Vision
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
I laugh when I hear the fish in the water is thirsty.
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Laughter Thirsty Water
Reading books everyone died, none became any wise. One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.
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Book Oneself Reading Wisdom
What is a holy person? The one who is aware of others’ suffering.
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Aware Oneself Person Suffering
As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.
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Greatness Honey Wealth Zest
As the river surrenders itself to the ocean, what is inside me moves inside you.
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Move River Surrender Yourself
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
Men have always looked before and after, and rebelled against the existing order. But for their divine discontent, men would not have been men, and there would have been no progress in human affairs.
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Affair Divine Existence Human Man Order Progress Rebel
The apple blossom exists to create fruit; when that comes, the petal falls.
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Creation Existence Fall Fruit
All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
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Deep Known Ocean
My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.
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Flash Lightening Myself Oneself Sky
When you really look for me you will see me instantly.
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God Myself Search See Willing
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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Distance Myself Smile Water
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
For millions of years you have slept. This morning, will you not wake?
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Morning Sleep Time Yourself
The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling.
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Counseling Need Professional Serious Thirsty Water
The Lord is in me, the Lord is in you,as life is in every seed, put false pride away and seek the Lord within.
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Fake God Life Pride Yourself
Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert, when all around you there is nothing but water!
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Death Desert Scream Water Yourself
The sun is within me and so is the moon.
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Moon Myself Sun
Now I have no caste, no creed, I am no more what I am!
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Caste Myself
The river that flows in you also flows in me.
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Flow River Yourself
I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. You don’t grasp the fact that what is most alive of all is inside your own house; and so you walk from one holy city to the next with a confused look!
KABIR

Confusion Factor Holy Home Laughter Walk Water Yourself
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.
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Himself Listening Reality Secret Sound
Seeking Why run around sprinkling holy water? There’s an ocean inside you, and when you’re ready you’ll drink.
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Drink Ocean Run Water Yourself

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