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!
KABIRI 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.
More Kabir Quotes
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Listen to me, my Friend! My beloved Lord is within.
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Reading books everyone died, none became any wise. One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.
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Listen, my friend. He who loves understands.
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A diamond was laying in the street covered with dirt. Many fools passed by. Someone who knew diamonds picked it up.
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If you make love with the divine now, in the next life you will have the face of satisfied desire.
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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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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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Why are we here? To become ourselves in you.
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I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. I laugh when I hear that people go on pilgrimage to find God.
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Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain.
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All darkness vanished, when I saw the Lamp within my heart.
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Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet. Think about it carefully! Don’t go off somewhere else! just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
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Do what you do with another human being, but never put them out of your heart.
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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.
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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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