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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.

Kabir

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.
KABIR

Burn Follow Hands Home Myself
Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet. Think about it carefully! Don’t go off somewhere else! just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
KABIR

Body Firm Imagination Place Solid Stand Strong Yourself
My heart is so intoxicated with love that I have no wish to speak.
KABIR

Heart Love Myself Talk
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
As the river surrenders itself to the ocean, what is inside me moves inside you.
KABIR

Move River Surrender Yourself
Though One Brahman is the Cause of the Many. Behold but One in all things it is the second that leads you astray.
KABIR

Direction Journey Leadership Reason
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.
KABIR

Guest Intense Search Slave Willing
When the flower opens, the bees will come.
KABIR

Flower Open Willing
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
A diamond was laying in the street covered with dirt. Many fools passed by. Someone who knew diamonds picked it up.
KABIR

Cover Diamond Fools Known
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.
KABIR

Apartment Death End Finding Simplicity
Do what you do with another human being, but never put them out of your heart.
KABIR

Heart Human Yourself
The river that flows in you also flows in me.
KABIR

Flow River Yourself
I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.
KABIR

Blind City Mirrors Myself
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.
KABIR

Intelligence Myself Nourish Soul Thinking
The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.
KABIR

Fools Instruction Waste White

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