The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.
KABIRIt is the spirit of the quest which helps.
More Kabir Quotes
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Wear a crown of flowers on your head, let its roots reach your heart.
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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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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.
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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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All darkness vanished, when I saw the Lamp within my heart.
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Do what you do with another human being, but never put them out of your heart.
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I do not quote from the scriptures; I simply see what I see.
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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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As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.
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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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Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet.
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The world will die, but I shall not die.If God dies, then I will die;If he does not die, then why should I die?
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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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All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
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