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Kabir

The flute of the infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is love.
KABIR

Infinite Love Play Sound
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
All darkness vanished, when I saw the Lamp within my heart.
KABIR

Darkness Heart Myself
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.
KABIR

Apartment Death End Finding Simplicity
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
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?
KABIR

Design God Paint Weird Yourself
Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet. Think about it carefully! Don’t go off somewhere else! just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
KABIR

Body Firm Imagination Place Solid Stand Strong Yourself
Forgiveness is a game only saints play Kabir.
KABIR

Forgiveness Game Play Saint
When the bride is one with her lover, who cares about the wedding party?
KABIR

Bride Care Lover Party
The essence of life is in remembering God.
KABIR

Essence God Life Remember
Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert, when all around you there is nothing but water!
KABIR

Death Desert Scream Water Yourself
Listen, my friend. He who loves understands.
KABIR

Friendship Listening Love Understand
But if a mirror ever makes you sad you should know that it does not know you.
KABIR

Mirror Sadness Yourself
Faith,Waiting in the heart of a seed, Promises a miracle of life which cannot prove at once.
KABIR

Evidence Faith Heart Miracle Promise Wait
I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.
KABIR

Blind City Mirrors Myself
Plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is, Believe in the Great Sound!
KABIR

Finding Greatness Sound Teacher Truth

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