The Beloved is inside you and also inside me. You know the tree is hidden inside the seed. Let your arrogance go. None of us has gone far. Inside love there is more power than we realize.
KABIRThe 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.
More Kabir Quotes
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The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.
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Do what you do with another human being, but never put them out of your heart.
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When the flower opens, the bees will come.
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Listen to me, my Friend! My beloved Lord is within.
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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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It is the spirit of the quest which helps.
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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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The essence of life is in remembering God.
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The stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail.
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Now I have no caste, no creed, I am no more what I am!
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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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I went in search of a bad person; I found none as I, seeing myself, found me the worst.
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If you haven’t experienced it, it’s not true.
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Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert, when all around you there is nothing but water!
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Path 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!
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Within the body there is played Music unending, though without stringed instruments That music of the Word pervades the entire creation Who listens to it is freed from all illusion.
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Stand firm in that which you are.
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Do not keep the slanderer away, treat him with affection and honor: Body and soul, he scours all clean, babbling about this and that.
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My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.
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For millions of years you have slept. This morning, will you not wake?
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Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.
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Plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is, Believe in the Great Sound!
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Wear a crown of flowers on your head, let its roots reach your heart.
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If you don’t break your ropes while you’re alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?
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Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.
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But if a mirror ever makes you sad you should know that it does not know you.
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