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But if a mirror ever makes you sad you should know that it does not know you.

Kabir

Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert, when all around you there is nothing but water!
KABIR

Death Desert Scream Water Yourself
I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days and God came to me.
KABIR

Day Feeling God Greatness Myself Pilgrimage
Why are we here? To become ourselves in you.
KABIR

God Ourselves Yourself
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
There is no river at all, and no boat, and no boatman. There is not even a rope to tow the boat, and no one to pull it. There is no earth, no sky, no time, no thing, no shore, no ford!
KABIR

Earth Illusion Oneself Reality River Time
The stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail.
KABIR

Service Stone Worship
Wherever you are, that’s the entry point.
KABIR

Inspirational Point Yourself
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
I went in search of a bad person; I found none as I, seeing myself, found me the worst.
KABIR

Bad Finding Myself Person Search Worst
When the Guest is being searched for, it is the intensity of the longing for the Guest that does all the work. Look at me, and you will see a slave of that intensity.
KABIR

Guest Intense Search Slave Willing
The purpose of labor is to learn; when you know it, the labor is over.
KABIR

Labor Learning Over Purpose
Path presupposes distance; If He be near, no path needest thou at all. Verily it maketh me smile To hear of a fish in water athirst!
KABIR

Distance Myself Smile Water
Listen to me brother! bring the vision of the Beloved in your heart.
KABIR

Beloved Heart Listening Myself Vision
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
Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.
KABIR

Breathe God Himself Myself Student
The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.
KABIR

Fools Instruction Waste White

But if a mirror ever makes you sad you should know that it does not know you.

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