The apple blossom exists to create fruit; when that comes, the petal falls.
KABIRThe apple blossom exists to create fruit; when that comes, the petal falls.
KABIRI went in search of a bad person; I found none as I, seeing myself, found me the worst.
KABIRA learned man’s knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn’t have control over his tongue.
KABIRWhen the Guest is being searched for, it is the intensity of the longing for the Guest that does all the work. Look at me, and you will see a slave of that intensity.
KABIRIf you want the truth, I’ll tell you the truth. Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you.
KABIRPath 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!
KABIRThe instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.
KABIRSeeking Why run around sprinkling holy water? There’s an ocean inside you, and when you’re ready you’ll drink.
KABIRThough One Brahman is the Cause of the Many. Behold but One in all things it is the second that leads you astray.
KABIRWhen you feel most alive, find out why, This is one guest you won’t greet twice.
KABIRWear a crown of flowers on your head, let its roots reach your heart.
KABIRWhat is a holy person? The one who is aware of others’ suffering.
KABIRThe 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.
KABIRListen 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.
KABIRReading books everyone died, none became any wise. One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.
KABIRI laugh when I hear the fish in the water is thirsty.
KABIR