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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

Listen, my friend. He who loves understands.
KABIR

Friendship Listening Love Understand
Within the body there is played Music unending, though without stringed instruments That music of the Word pervades the entire creation Who listens to it is freed from all illusion.
KABIR

Body Creation Illusion Instrument Listening Music Play
I do not quote from the scriptures; I simply see what I see.
KABIR

Myself Quote Scripture See Simplicity
The apple blossom exists to create fruit; when that comes, the petal falls.
KABIR

Creation Existence Fall Fruit
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
If you don’t break your ropes while you’re alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?
KABIR

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.
KABIR

Drink Ocean Run Water Yourself
Wherever you are, that’s the entry point.
KABIR

Inspirational Point Yourself
Listen to your own Self. If you listen to that Self within, then you find the Truth.
KABIR

Finding Listening Truth Yourself
All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
KABIR

Deep Known Ocean
The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.
KABIR

Fools Instruction Waste White
The 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.
KABIR

Myself Sick Tree Wander
Don’t open your diamonds in a vegetable market. Tie them in bundle and keep them in your heart, and go your own way.
KABIR

Diamond Heart Market Open Way Yourself
The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling.
KABIR

Counseling Need Professional Serious Thirsty Water
A learned man’s knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn’t have control over his tongue.
KABIR

Control Himself Knowledge Learning Man
Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet.
KABIR

Body Place Solid Strong Yourself

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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