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The world will die, but I shall not die.If God dies, then I will die;If he does not die, then why should I die?

Kabir

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.
KABIR

Body Name People Soul Start 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
All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
KABIR

Deep Known Ocean
The truth of love is the truth of the universe: it is the lamp of the soul that reveals the secrets of darkness.
KABIR

Darkness Lamp Love Secret Soul Truth Universe
I laugh when I hear the fish in the water is thirsty.
KABIR

Laughter Thirsty Water
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
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
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
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
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 the bride is one with her lover, who cares about the wedding party?
KABIR

Bride Care Lover Party
Forgiveness is a game only saints play Kabir.
KABIR

Forgiveness Game Play Saint
The Beloved is inside you and also inside me. You know the tree is hidden inside the seed. Let your arrogance go. None of us has gone far. Inside love there is more power than we realize.
KABIR

Arrogant Beloved Hide Love Power Realize Tree Yourself
Plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is, Believe in the Great Sound!
KABIR

Finding Greatness Sound Teacher Truth
Though One Brahman is the Cause of the Many. Behold but One in all things it is the second that leads you astray.
KABIR

Direction Journey Leadership Reason
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.
KABIR

Burn Follow Hands Home Myself
If you haven’t experienced it, it’s not true.
KABIR

Experience True 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. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling.
KABIR

Forest Laughter Thirsty Water Yourself
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
Lift the veil that obscures the heart, and there you will find what you are looking for.
KABIR

Finding Heart Willing 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
Listen to your own Self. If you listen to that Self within, then you find the Truth.
KABIR

Finding Listening Truth Yourself
The flute of the infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is love.
KABIR

Infinite Love Play Sound
As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.
KABIR

Greatness Honey Wealth Zest
Reading books everyone died, none became any wise. One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.
KABIR

Book Oneself Reading Wisdom
Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet. Think about it carefully! Don’t go off somewhere else! just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
KABIR

Body Firm Imagination Place Solid Stand Strong Yourself

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