If you don’t break your ropes while you’re alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?
KABIR
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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If you don’t break your ropes while you’re alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?
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Faith,Waiting in the heart of a seed, Promises a miracle of life which cannot prove at once.
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But if a mirror ever makes you sad you should know that it does not know you.
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If you make love with the divine now, in the next life you will have the face of satisfied desire.
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Listen to me, my Friend! My beloved Lord is within.
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Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
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All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
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Wear a crown of flowers on your head, let its roots reach your heart.
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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.
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Path presupposes distance; If He be near, no path needest thou at all. Verily it maketh me smile To hear of a fish in water athirst!
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Only in the heart can one experience the divine presence of truth.
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Do not go to the garden of flowers! O friend! go not there; In your body is the garden of flowers. Take your seat on the thousand petals of the lotus, and there gaze on the infinite beauty.
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What is a holy person? The one who is aware of others’ suffering.
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Listen to me brother! bring the vision of the Beloved in your heart.
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Do not praise yourself not slander others: There are still many days to go and any thing could happen.
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