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Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.

Kabir

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.
KABIR

Body Finding Illusion Music Play
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
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
Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet.
KABIR

Body Place Solid Strong Yourself
What is a holy person? The one who is aware of others’ suffering.
KABIR

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

Drink Ocean Run Water 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
If it were possible to meet the Beloved while laughing and in a state of comfort, why should one suffer the anguish of separation?
KABIR

Anguish Comfort Laughter Possible Separate State Suffering White
I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.
KABIR

Blind City Mirrors Myself
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
Do not praise yourself not slander others: There are still many days to go and any thing could happen.
KABIR

Day Humble Praise Slander
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.
KABIR

Affair Divine Existence Human Man Order Progress Rebel
Do not go to the garden of flowers! O friend! go not there; In your body is the garden of flowers. Take your seat on the thousand petals of the lotus, and there gaze on the infinite beauty.
KABIR

Beautiful Flower Friendship Garden Infinite
Why are we here? To become ourselves in you.
KABIR

God Ourselves Yourself
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
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

Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.

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