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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.

Kabir

If you haven’t experienced it, it’s not true.
KABIR

Experience True 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.
KABIR

Body Firm Imagination Place Solid Stand Strong Yourself
When you feel most alive, find out why, This is one guest you won’t greet twice.
KABIR

Alive Feeling Guest Yourself
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

Anguish Comfort Laughter Possible Separate State Suffering White
The purpose of labor is to learn; when you know it, the labor is over.
KABIR

Labor Learning Over Purpose
Listen to me, my Friend! My beloved Lord is within.
KABIR

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

Mirror Sadness Yourself
All darkness vanished, when I saw the Lamp within my heart.
KABIR

Darkness Heart Myself
What is found now is found then. If you find nothing now, you will simply end up with an apartment in the City of Death.
KABIR

Apartment Death End Finding Simplicity
The essence of life is in remembering God.
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Essence God Life Remember
Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert, when all around you there is nothing but water!
KABIR

Death Desert Scream Water Yourself
The truth of love is the truth of the universe: it is the lamp of the soul that reveals the secrets of darkness.
KABIR

Darkness Lamp Love Secret Soul Truth Universe
Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.
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Breathe God Himself Myself Student
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
Though One Brahman is the Cause of the Many. Behold but One in all things it is the second that leads you astray.
KABIR

Direction Journey Leadership Reason
What is a holy person? The one who is aware of others’ suffering.
KABIR

Aware Oneself Person Suffering

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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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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