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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 the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.
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Greatness Honey Wealth Zest
Reading books everyone died, none became any wise. One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.
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Book Oneself Reading Wisdom
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
Do not go to the garden of flowers! O friend! go not there; In your body is the garden of flowers. Take your seat on the thousand petals of the lotus, and there gaze on the infinite beauty.
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Beautiful Flower Friendship Garden Infinite
Stand firm in that which you are.
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Firm Stand 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
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
I’ve burned my own house down, the torch is in my hand.Now I’ll burn down the house of anyone who wants to follow me.
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Burn Follow Hands Home 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
Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.
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Breathe God Himself Myself Student
Love does not grow on trees or brought in the market, but if one wants to be “LOVED” one must first know how to give (unconditional) LOVE.
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Growth Love Market Oneself
The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.
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Fools Instruction Waste White
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 world will die, but I shall not die.If God dies, then I will die;If he does not die, then why should I die?
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Death God Himself Myself World
Listen to me brother! bring the vision of the Beloved in your heart.
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Beloved Heart Listening Myself Vision
Do you believe there is some place that will make thesoul less thirsty? In that great absence you will find nothing.
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Absence Believe Finding Greatness Place Soul Willing 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 laugh when I hear the fish in the water is thirsty.
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Laughter Thirsty Water
The stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail.
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Service Stone Worship
When the bride is one with her lover, who cares about the wedding party?
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Bride Care Lover Party
Listen, my friend. He who loves understands.
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Friendship Listening Love Understand
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
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
Wherever you are, that’s the entry point.
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Inspirational Point 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
If you don’t break your ropes while you’re alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?
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Alive Break Ghost Willing
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

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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