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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

Why are we here? To become ourselves in you.
KABIR

God Ourselves Yourself
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
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

Distance Myself Smile Water
Now I have no caste, no creed, I am no more what I am!
KABIR

Caste Myself
It is the spirit of the quest which helps.
KABIR

Help One Liner Quest Spirit
As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.
KABIR

Greatness Honey Wealth Zest
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
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
I laugh when I hear the fish in the water is thirsty.
KABIR

Laughter Thirsty 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
My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.
KABIR

Flash Lightening Myself Oneself Sky
I don’t think there is such a thing as an intelligent mega-rich person. For who with a fine mind can look out upon this world and hoard what can nourish a thousand souls.
KABIR

Intelligence Myself Nourish Soul Thinking
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
All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
KABIR

Deep Known Ocean
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
Stand firm in that which you are.
KABIR

Firm Stand Yourself

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.

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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.

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