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What is a holy person? The one who is aware of others’ suffering.

Kabir

Do you believe there is some place that will make thesoul less thirsty? In that great absence you will find nothing.
KABIR

Absence Believe Finding Greatness Place Soul Willing Yourself
When you really look for me you will see me instantly.
KABIR

God Myself Search See Willing
But if a mirror ever makes you sad you should know that it does not know you.
KABIR

Mirror Sadness Yourself
When the flower opens, the bees will come.
KABIR

Flower Open Willing
Go over and over your beads, paint weird designs on your forehead, wear your hear matted, long, and ostentatious, but when deep inside you there is a loaded gun, how can you have God?
KABIR

Design God Paint Weird Yourself
There’s a moon in my body, but I can’t see it! A moon and a sun. A drum never touched by hands, beating, and I can’t hear it!
KABIR

Body Hands Moon Myself Sun
If you haven’t experienced it, it’s not true.
KABIR

Experience True Yourself
My heart is so intoxicated with love that I have no wish to speak.
KABIR

Heart Love Myself Talk
Stand firm in that which you are.
KABIR

Firm Stand Yourself
Only in the heart can one experience the divine presence of truth.
KABIR

Divine Experience Heart Presence Truth
The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.
KABIR

Fools Instruction Waste White
God, provide me with enough sustenance that my family is taken care of, that neither I remain hungry, nor does my guest go unfed.
KABIR

Enough Family God Guest Hungry Myself Provide
If you don’t break your ropes while you’re alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?
KABIR

Alive Break Ghost Willing
As the river surrenders itself to the ocean, what is inside me moves inside you.
KABIR

Move River Surrender Yourself
When the bride is one with her lover, who cares about the wedding party?
KABIR

Bride Care Lover Party
As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.
KABIR

Greatness Honey Wealth Zest

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