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.
KABIRI do not quote from the scriptures; I simply see what I see.
More Kabir Quotes
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Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet.
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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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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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The truth of love is the truth of the universe: it is the lamp of the soul that reveals the secrets of darkness.
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I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days and God came to me.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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Don’t open your diamonds in a vegetable market. Tie them in bundle and keep them in your heart, and go your own way.
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When the bride is one with her lover, who cares about the wedding party?
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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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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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My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.
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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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