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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

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 you really look for me you will see me instantly.
KABIR

God Myself Search See Willing
Stand firm in that which you are.
KABIR

Firm Stand Yourself
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
As the river surrenders itself to the ocean, what is inside me moves inside you.
KABIR

Move River Surrender Yourself
The savor of wandering in the ocean of deathless life has rid me of all my asking: As the tree is in the seed, so all diseases are in this asking.
KABIR

Myself Sick Tree Wander
Do what you do with another human being, but never put them out of your heart.
KABIR

Heart Human Yourself
When you feel most alive, find out why, This is one guest you won’t greet twice.
KABIR

Alive Feeling Guest 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
Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet.
KABIR

Body Place Solid Strong Yourself
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
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
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
Reading books everyone died, none became any wise. One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.
KABIR

Book Oneself Reading Wisdom
Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.
KABIR

Breathe God Himself Myself Student
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

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