O friend! hope for Him whilst you live, know whilst you liv… - Kabir

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O friend! hope for Him whilst you live, know whilst you live, understand whilst you live: for in life deliverance abides.
If your bonds be not broken whilst living, what hope of deliverance in death?
It is but an empty dream, that the soul shall have union with Him because it has passed from the body:
If He is found now, He is found then,
If not, we do but go to dwell in the City of Death.
If you have union now, you shall have it hereafter.

Kabir

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About Kabir

Kabir (1440–1518) was an Indian poet, mystic and philosopher, and one of the Northern India Sants.

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Alternative Names: Kabir Sahib • Kabir Das • Bhagat Kabir

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O friend! hope for Him whilst you live, know whilst you live,
understand whilst you live: for in life deliverance abides.
If your bonds be not broken whilst living, what hope of deliverance in death?

Originators like Kabir:

Rumi Rabindranath Tagore Nikos Kazantzakis Walt Whitman Kahlil Gibran

Additional quotes by Kabir

You have slept millions and millions of years.
Why not wake up this morning?

Nindak niyare rakhiye aangan kuti chhawaye;
Bin sabun pani bina nirmal karat subhaye.

Piščal Neskončnega neprenehoma igra,
njen zvok je čista ljubezen.
Ko se ljubezen osvobodi spon, seže po resnici.
Kako širno se razlega ta zven!
Nima konca in nič mu ne stoji napoti.
Podoba te melodije sije kakor milijone sonc.
To brenkalo je brez primere-
brenkalo, ki oddaja note resnice.

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