For millions of years you have slept. This morning, will you not wake?
KABIRI’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.
More Kabir Quotes
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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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As the river surrenders itself to the ocean, what is inside me moves inside you.
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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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I laugh when I hear the fish in the water is thirsty.
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Be quiet in your mind, quiet in your senses, and also quiet in your body. Then, when all these are quiet, don’t do anything. In that state truth will reveal itself to you.
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Listen, my friend. He who loves understands.
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Stand firm in that which you are.
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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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Wherever you are, that’s the entry point.
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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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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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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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The river that flows in you also flows in me.
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The Lord is in me, the Lord is in you,as life is in every seed, put false pride away and seek the Lord within.
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If you don’t break your ropes while you’re alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?
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Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
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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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I went in search of a bad person; I found none as I, seeing myself, found me the worst.
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Path presupposes distance; If He be near, no path needest thou at all. Verily it maketh me smile To hear of a fish in water athirst!
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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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A learned man’s knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn’t have control over his tongue.
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Forgiveness is a game only saints play Kabir.
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When the flower opens, the bees will come.
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My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.
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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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Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you. The one no one talks of speaks the secret sound to himself, and he is the one who has made it all.
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