A diamond was laying in the street covered with dirt. Many fools passed by. Someone who knew diamonds picked it up.
KABIRIt is the spirit of the quest which helps.
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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When the bride is one with her lover, who cares about the wedding party?
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The essence of life is in remembering God.
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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 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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Faith,Waiting in the heart of a seed, Promises a miracle of life which cannot prove at once.
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Plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is, Believe in the Great Sound!
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Listen, my friend. He who loves understands.
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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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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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Go over and over your beads, paint weird designs on your forehead, wear your hear matted, long, and ostentatious, but when deep inside you there is a loaded gun, how can you have God?
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As the river surrenders itself to the ocean, what is inside me moves inside you.
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Nada is found within. It is a music without strings which plays in the body. It penetrates the inner and outer and leads you away from 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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The purpose of labor is to learn; when you know it, the labor is over.
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