Seeking Why run around sprinkling holy water? There’s an ocean inside you, and when you’re ready you’ll drink.
KABIRI am not a Hindu, Nor a Muslim, I am this body, a play Of five elements a drama Of the spirit dancing With joy and sorrow.
More Kabir Quotes
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Lift the veil that obscures the heart, and there you will find what you are looking for.
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I’ve burned my own house down, the torch is in my hand.Now I’ll burn down the house of anyone who wants to follow me.
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The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.
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When the bride is one with her lover, who cares about the wedding party?
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If you make love with the divine now, in the next life you will have the face of satisfied desire.
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I don’t think there is such a thing as an intelligent mega-rich person. For who with a fine mind can look out upon this world and hoard what can nourish a thousand souls.
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God, provide me with enough sustenance that my family is taken care of, that neither I remain hungry, nor does my guest go unfed.
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Men have always looked before and after, and rebelled against the existing order. But for their divine discontent, men would not have been men, and there would have been no progress in human affairs.
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The man who is kind and who practices righteousness, who remains passive against the affairs of the world, who considers all creatures on earth as his own self, he attains the Immortal Being; the true God is ever with him.
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Sing such a song with all of your heart that you’ll never have to sing again.
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I laugh when I hear the fish in the water is thirsty.
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I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. You don’t grasp the fact that what is most alive of all is inside your own house; and so you walk from one holy city to the next with a confused look!
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My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.
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The 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.
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I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling.
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If you want the truth, I’ll tell you the truth. Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you.
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As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.
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Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet. Think about it carefully! Don’t go off somewhere else! just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
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The flute of the infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is love.
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One love it is that pervades the whole world, few there are who know it fully: They are blind who hope to see it by the light of reason, that reason which is the cause of separation – The house of reason is very far away!
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Do not praise yourself not slander others: There are still many days to go and any thing could happen.
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Only in the heart can one experience the divine presence of truth.
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Go over and over your beads, paint weird designs on your forehead, wear your hear matted, long, and ostentatious, but when deep inside you there is a loaded gun, how can you have God?
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All darkness vanished, when I saw the Lamp within my heart.
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Love does not grow on trees or brought in the market, but if one wants to be “LOVED” one must first know how to give (unconditional) LOVE.
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Take a pitcher full of water and set it down in the water-now it has water inside and water outside. We mustn’t give it a name, lest silly people start talking again about the body and the soul.
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