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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!

Kabir

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
As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.
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Greatness Honey Wealth Zest
All darkness vanished, when I saw the Lamp within my heart.
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Darkness Heart Myself
The external forces conceal from the eyes the deep meaning of existence; True faith resides in the heart.
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Existence Eyes Faith Force Heart Meaning
The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling.
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Counseling Need Professional Serious Thirsty Water
There’s a moon in my body, but I can’t see it! A moon and a sun. A drum never touched by hands, beating, and I can’t hear it!
KABIR

Body Hands Moon Myself Sun
If you make love with the divine now, in the next life you will have the face of satisfied desire.
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Desire Divine Face Love Satisfaction
Do not keep the slanderer away, treat him with affection and honor: Body and soul, he scours all clean, babbling about this and that.
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Body Himself Honor Soul Treat
All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
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Deep Known Ocean
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.
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God Himself Immortal Kind Man Passive Practice Right
I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days and God came to me.
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Day Feeling God Greatness Myself Pilgrimage
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.
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Guest Intense Search Slave Willing
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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Affection Creature Death Human Myself Teacher Worry
Listen, my friend. He who loves understands.
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Friendship Listening Love Understand
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.
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Apartment Death End Finding Simplicity
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

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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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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