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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!

Kabir

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
The essence of life is in remembering God.
KABIR

Essence God Life Remember
The purpose of labor is to learn; when you know it, the labor is over.
KABIR

Labor Learning Over Purpose
The man who is kind and who practices righteousness, who remains passive against the affairs of the world, who considers all creatures on earth as his own self, he attains the Immortal Being; the true God is ever with him.
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God Himself Immortal Kind Man Passive Practice Right
Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.
KABIR

Breathe God Himself Myself Student
My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.
KABIR

Flash Lightening Myself Oneself Sky
Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet.
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Body Place Solid Strong Yourself
The Beloved is inside you and also inside me. You know the tree is hidden inside the seed. Let your arrogance go. None of us has gone far. Inside love there is more power than we realize.
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Arrogant Beloved Hide Love Power Realize Tree 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
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
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.
KABIR

Finding God Laughter People Pilgrimage Water
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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Diamond Heart Market Open Way Yourself
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
As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.
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Greatness Honey Wealth Zest
Are you looking for the Holy One? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours.
KABIR

Holy Shoulder 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

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