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Kabîr says, "O Sadhu! God is the breath of all breath."

— Kabir Songs of Kabîr (1915)

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As translated by Stephen Mitchell in The Enlightened Heart (1993) | II

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Kabir says: Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath

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