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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

The Lord is in me, the Lord is in you,as life is in every seed, put false pride away and seek the Lord within.
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Fake God Life Pride Yourself
The apple blossom exists to create fruit; when that comes, the petal falls.
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Creation Existence Fall Fruit
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.
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Arrogant Beloved Hide Love Power Realize Tree Yourself
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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Earth Illusion Oneself Reality River Time
The river that flows in you also flows in me.
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Flow River Yourself
Men have always looked before and after, and rebelled against the existing order. But for their divine discontent, men would not have been men, and there would have been no progress in human affairs.
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Affair Divine Existence Human Man Order Progress Rebel
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
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.
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Body Mindset Quiet Truth Yourself
When you feel most alive, find out why, This is one guest you won’t greet twice.
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Alive Feeling Guest Yourself
But if a mirror ever makes you sad you should know that it does not know you.
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Mirror Sadness Yourself
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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Body Finding Illusion Music Play
As the river surrenders itself to the ocean, what is inside me moves inside you.
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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.
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Myself Sick Tree Wander
God, provide me with enough sustenance that my family is taken care of, that neither I remain hungry, nor does my guest go unfed.
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Enough Family God Guest Hungry Myself Provide
I went in search of a bad person; I found none as I, seeing myself, found me the worst.
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Bad Finding Myself Person Search Worst
My heart is so intoxicated with love that I have no wish to speak.
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Heart Love Myself Talk
Seeking Why run around sprinkling holy water? There’s an ocean inside you, and when you’re ready you’ll drink.
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Drink Ocean Run Water Yourself
When the bride is one with her lover, who cares about the wedding party?
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Bride Care Lover Party
The flute of the infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is love.
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Infinite Love Play Sound
Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.
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Breathe God Himself Myself Student
Listen, my friend. He who loves understands.
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Friendship Listening Love Understand
Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain.
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Death Remain Wisdom World
Only in the heart can one experience the divine presence of truth.
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Divine Experience Heart Presence Truth
Music without words means leaving behind the mind. And leaving behind the mind is meditation. Meditation returns you to the source. And the source of all is sound.
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Leaving Mindset Music Source Word Yourself
The purpose of labor is to learn; when you know it, the labor is over.
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Labor Learning Over Purpose
When you really look for me you will see me instantly.
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God Myself Search See 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

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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