Seeking Why run around sprinkling holy water? There’s an ocean inside you, and when you’re ready you’ll drink.
KABIRIf it were possible to meet the Beloved while laughing and in a state of comfort, why should one suffer the anguish of separation?
More Kabir Quotes
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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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The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.
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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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I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.
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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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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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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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The external forces conceal from the eyes the deep meaning of existence; True faith resides in the heart.
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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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Wherever you are, that’s the entry point.
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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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If you don’t break your ropes while you’re alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?
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The flute of the infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is love.
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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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Now I have no caste, no creed, I am no more what I am!
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