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For millions of years you have slept. This morning, will you not wake?

Kabir

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.
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Body Dance Element Joy Play Religion Sorrow Spirit
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.
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Growth Love Market Oneself
I laugh when I hear the fish in the water is thirsty.
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Laughter Thirsty Water
Go over and over your beads, paint weird designs on your forehead, wear your hear matted, long, and ostentatious, but when deep inside you there is a loaded gun, how can you have God?
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Design God Paint Weird Yourself
Wherever you are, that’s the entry point.
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Inspirational Point 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
The purpose of labor is to learn; when you know it, the labor is over.
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Labor Learning Over Purpose
The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling.
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Counseling Need Professional Serious Thirsty Water
Sing such a song with all of your heart that you’ll never have to sing again.
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Heart Singing Yourself
My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.
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Flash Lightening Myself Oneself Sky
When you really look for me you will see me instantly.
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God Myself Search See Willing
The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.
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Fools Instruction Waste White
Faith,Waiting in the heart of a seed, Promises a miracle of life which cannot prove at once.
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Evidence Faith Heart Miracle Promise Wait
If you don’t break your ropes while you’re alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?
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Alive Break Ghost Willing
If you want the truth, I’ll tell you the truth. Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you.
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Listening Reality Secret Truth Yourself
When you feel most alive, find out why, This is one guest you won’t greet twice.
KABIR

Alive Feeling Guest Yourself

For millions of years you have slept. This morning, will you not wake?

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