When 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.
KABIRThe truth of love is the truth of the universe: it is the lamp of the soul that reveals the secrets of darkness.
More Kabir Quotes
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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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Do not go to the garden of flowers! O friend! go not there; In your body is the garden of flowers. Take your seat on the thousand petals of the lotus, and there gaze on the infinite beauty.
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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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Listen to me, my Friend! My beloved Lord is within.
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Faith,Waiting in the heart of a seed, Promises a miracle of life which cannot prove at once.
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If it were possible to meet the Beloved while laughing and in a state of comfort, why should one suffer the anguish of separation?
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The river that flows in you also flows in me.
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The apple blossom exists to create fruit; when that comes, the petal falls.
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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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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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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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There’s a moon in my body, but I can’t see it! A moon and a sun. A drum never touched by hands, beating, and I can’t hear it!
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Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
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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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What is a holy person? The one who is aware of others’ suffering.
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