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I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling.

Kabir

As long as I talked unceasingly about the Lord,The Lord stayed away, kept at a distance.But when I silenced my mouth, sat very stillAnd fixed my mind at the doorway of the Lord,I was linked to the music of the Word,And all my talking came to an end.
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Distance End God Mindset Silence Stay Talk
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
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
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
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
My heart is so intoxicated with love that I have no wish to speak.
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Heart Love Myself Talk
Plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is, Believe in the Great Sound!
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Finding Greatness Sound Teacher Truth
I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling.
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Forest Laughter Thirsty Water Yourself
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
Listen to me brother! bring the vision of the Beloved in your heart.
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Beloved Heart Listening Myself Vision
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!
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Body Hands Moon Myself Sun
I do not quote from the scriptures; I simply see what I see.
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Myself Quote Scripture See Simplicity
Listen to me, my Friend! My beloved Lord is within.
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Friendship God Listening Myself
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 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
Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.
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Breathe God Himself Myself Student

I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling.

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I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling.

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