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Kabir

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
My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.
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Flash Lightening Myself Oneself Sky
Wherever you are, that’s the entry point.
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Inspirational Point Yourself
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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Affection Creature Death Human Myself Teacher Worry
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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Finding God Laughter People Pilgrimage Water
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
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
If you haven’t experienced it, it’s not true.
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Experience True Yourself
The essence of life is in remembering God.
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Essence God Life Remember
For millions of years you have slept. This morning, will you not wake?
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Morning Sleep Time 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?
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Anguish Comfort Laughter Possible Separate State Suffering White
Listen to me brother! bring the vision of the Beloved in your heart.
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Beloved Heart Listening Myself Vision
I don’t think there is such a thing as an intelligent mega-rich person. For who with a fine mind can look out upon this world and hoard what can nourish a thousand souls.
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Intelligence Myself Nourish Soul Thinking
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
But if a mirror ever makes you sad you should know that it does not know you.
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Mirror Sadness Yourself
All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
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Deep Known Ocean

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