Don’t open your diamonds in a vegetable market. Tie them in bundle and keep them in your heart, and go your own way.
KABIRThe 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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When the flower opens, the bees will come.
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My heart is so intoxicated with love that I have no wish to speak.
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If you want the truth, I’ll tell you the truth. Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you.
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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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I’ve burned my own house down, the torch is in my hand.Now I’ll burn down the house of anyone who wants to follow me.
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Do what you do with another human being, but never put them out of your heart.
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All darkness vanished, when I saw the Lamp within my heart.
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The purpose of labor is to learn; when you know it, the labor is over.
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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?
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Only in the heart can one experience the divine presence of truth.
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Lift the veil that obscures the heart, and there you will find what you are looking for.
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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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Are you looking for the Holy One? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours.
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If you make love with the divine now, in the next life you will have the face of satisfied desire.
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When you really look for me you will see me instantly.
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My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.
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Sing such a song with all of your heart that you’ll never have to sing again.
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Nada is found within. It is a music without strings which plays in the body. It penetrates the inner and outer and leads you away from illusion.
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All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
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Listen to me, my Friend! My beloved Lord is within.
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The man who is kind and who practices righteousness, who remains passive against the affairs of the world, who considers all creatures on earth as his own self, he attains the Immortal Being; the true God is ever with him.
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As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.
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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.
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It is the spirit of the quest which helps.
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Why are we here? To become ourselves in you.
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Now I have no caste, no creed, I am no more what I am!
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