The apple blossom exists to create fruit; when that comes, the petal falls.
KABIRDon’t open your diamonds in a vegetable market. Tie them in bundle and keep them in your heart, and go your own way.
More Kabir Quotes
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There is no river at all, and no boat, and no boatman. There is not even a rope to tow the boat, and no one to pull it. There is no earth, no sky, no time, no thing, no shore, no ford!
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Listen to me brother! bring the vision of the Beloved in your heart.
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If you haven’t experienced it, it’s not true.
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I 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.
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All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
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As long as a human being worries about when he will die, and what he has that is his, all of his works are zero. When affection for the I-creature and what it owns is dead, then the work of the Teacher is over.
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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.
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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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Sing such a song with all of your heart that you’ll never have to sing again.
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The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling.
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Do you believe there is some place that will make thesoul less thirsty? In that great absence you will find nothing.
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Why are we here? To become ourselves in you.
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Plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is, Believe in the Great Sound!
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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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If you don’t break your ropes while you’re alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?
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