I laugh when I hear the fish in the water is thirsty.
KABIRFor millions of years you have slept. This morning, will you not wake?
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When the flower opens, the bees will come.
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Do not praise yourself not slander others: There are still many days to go and any thing could happen.
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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!
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As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.
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A learned man’s knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn’t have control over his tongue.
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All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
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Why are we here? To become ourselves in you.
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Reading books everyone died, none became any wise. One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.
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My heart is so intoxicated with love that I have no wish to speak.
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The apple blossom exists to create fruit; when that comes, the petal falls.
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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.
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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.
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The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.
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The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling.
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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.
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Do what you do with another human being, but never put them out of your heart.
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Now I have no caste, no creed, I am no more what I am!
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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.
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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!
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Wear a crown of flowers on your head, let its roots reach your heart.
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Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert, when all around you there is nothing but water!
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Though One Brahman is the Cause of the Many. Behold but One in all things it is the second that leads you astray.
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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.
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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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Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet.
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If you make love with the divine now, in the next life you will have the face of satisfied desire.
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