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

— Kabir

Variant translation: Kabir says: Student, tell me, what is God?
He is the breath inside the breath
As translated by Stephen Mitchell in The Enlightened Heart (1993)
Songs of Kabîr (1915)

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Indian mystic poet 1440–1518

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