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Seeking Why run around sprinkling holy water? There’s an ocean inside you, and when you’re ready you’ll drink.

Kabir

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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Affair Divine Existence Human Man Order Progress Rebel
I laugh when I hear the fish in the water is thirsty.
KABIR

Laughter Thirsty Water
As long as a human being worries about when he will die, and what he has that is his, all of his works are zero. When affection for the I-creature and what it owns is dead, then the work of the Teacher is over.
KABIR

Affection Creature Death Human Myself Teacher Worry
For millions of years you have slept. This morning, will you not wake?
KABIR

Morning Sleep Time Yourself
Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you. The one no one talks of speaks the secret sound to himself, and he is the one who has made it all.
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Himself Listening Reality Secret Sound
I am not a Hindu, Nor a Muslim, I am this body, a play Of five elements a drama Of the spirit dancing With joy and sorrow.
KABIR

Body Dance Element Joy Play Religion Sorrow Spirit
Be quiet in your mind, quiet in your senses, and also quiet in your body. Then, when all these are quiet, don’t do anything. In that state truth will reveal itself to you.
KABIR

Body Mindset Quiet Truth 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.
KABIR

Growth Love Market Oneself
I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. I laugh when I hear that people go on pilgrimage to find God.
KABIR

Finding God Laughter People Pilgrimage Water
Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.
KABIR

Admire Criticism Fake
Wherever you are, that’s the entry point.
KABIR

Inspirational Point Yourself
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
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.
KABIR

God Himself Immortal Kind Man Passive Practice Right
One love it is that pervades the whole world, few there are who know it fully: They are blind who hope to see it by the light of reason, that reason which is the cause of separation – The house of reason is very far away!
KABIR

Away Blind Light Love Reason World
When the flower opens, the bees will come.
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Flower Open Willing
The river that flows in you also flows in me.
KABIR

Flow River Yourself

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