Why run around offering water? There's a sea in every house… - Kabir

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Why run around offering water?
There's a sea in every house.
If anyone is thirsty,
by hook or crook, he'll drink.

Kabir

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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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are children of the Father by virtue of our existence; trapped in Time we may be, but our Father loves us and He will find us.

Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you. The one no one talks of speaks the secret sound to himself, and he is the one who has made it all.

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.

Why run around offering water? There's a sea in every house. If anyone is thirsty, by hook or crook, he'll drink. - Kabir

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