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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.

Kabir

Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.
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Breathe God Himself Myself Student
When you really look for me you will see me instantly.
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God Myself Search See Willing
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
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
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
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
If you haven’t experienced it, it’s not true.
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Experience True Yourself
Why are we here? To become ourselves in you.
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God Ourselves Yourself
Listen to me brother! bring the vision of the Beloved in your heart.
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Beloved Heart Listening Myself Vision
The Beloved is inside you and also inside me. You know the tree is hidden inside the seed. Let your arrogance go. None of us has gone far. Inside love there is more power than we realize.
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Arrogant Beloved Hide Love Power Realize Tree Yourself
If you don’t break your ropes while you’re alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?
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Alive Break Ghost Willing
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.
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Myself Sick Tree Wander
Sing such a song with all of your heart that you’ll never have to sing again.
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Heart Singing Yourself
Stand firm in that which you are.
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Firm Stand Yourself
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
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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Body Name People Soul Start Water

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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