The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling.
KABIRThe 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.
More Kabir Quotes
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Listen, my friend. He who loves understands.
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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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The external forces conceal from the eyes the deep meaning of existence; True faith resides in the heart.
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Are you looking for the Holy One? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours.
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Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.
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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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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.
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Don’t open your diamonds in a vegetable market. Tie them in bundle and keep them in your heart, and go your own way.
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The apple blossom exists to create fruit; when that comes, the petal falls.
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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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I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.
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I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. I laugh when I hear that people go on pilgrimage to find God.
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A diamond was laying in the street covered with dirt. Many fools passed by. Someone who knew diamonds picked it up.
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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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Reading books everyone died, none became any wise. One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.
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