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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

I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.
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Blind City Mirrors Myself
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!
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Away Blind Light Love Reason World
When the flower opens, the bees will come.
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Flower Open Willing
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

Forest Laughter Thirsty Water Yourself
If it were possible to meet the Beloved while laughing and in a state of comfort, why should one suffer the anguish of separation?
KABIR

Anguish Comfort Laughter Possible Separate State Suffering White
Only in the heart can one experience the divine presence of truth.
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Divine Experience Heart Presence Truth
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
Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you. The one no one talks of speaks the secret sound to himself, and he is the one who has made it all.
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Himself Listening Reality Secret Sound
My heart is so intoxicated with love that I have no wish to speak.
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Heart Love Myself Talk
As the river surrenders itself to the ocean, what is inside me moves inside you.
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Move River Surrender Yourself
Take a pitcher full of water and set it down in the water-now it has water inside and water outside. We mustn’t give it a name, lest silly people start talking again about the body and the soul.
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Body Name People Soul Start Water
The flute of the infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is love.
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Infinite Love Play Sound
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
The purpose of labor is to learn; when you know it, the labor is over.
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Labor Learning Over Purpose
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
Listen to your own Self. If you listen to that Self within, then you find the Truth.
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Finding Listening Truth Yourself

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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