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Don’t open your diamonds in a vegetable market. Tie them in bundle and keep them in your heart, and go your own way.
KabirKabir Nada is found within. It is a music without strings which plays in the body. It penetrates the inner and outer and leads you away from illusion.
KabirKabir Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert, when all around you there is nothing but water!
KabirKabir All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
KabirKabir The sun is within me and so is the moon.
KabirKabir Stand firm in that which you are.
KabirKabir 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.
KabirKabir 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.
KabirKabir The stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail.
KabirKabir Music without words means leaving behind the mind. And leaving behind the mind is meditation. Meditation returns you to the source. And the source of all is sound.
KabirKabir As long as I talked unceasingly about the Lord,The Lord stayed away, kept at a distance.But when I silenced my mouth, sat very stillAnd fixed my mind at the doorway of the Lord,I was linked to the music of the Word,And all my talking came to an end.
KabirKabir Are you looking for the Holy One? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours.
KabirKabir If you haven’t experienced it, it’s not true.
KabirKabir My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.
KabirKabir When the flower opens, the bees will come.
KabirKabir I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days and God came to me.
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