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.
KABIRTake a pitcher full of water and set it down in the water-now it has water inside and water outside. We mustn’t give it a name, lest silly people start talking again about the body and the soul.
More Kabir Quotes
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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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Listen to me brother! bring the vision of the Beloved in 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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Stand firm in that which you are.
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If you haven’t experienced it, it’s not true.
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What is found now is found then. If you find nothing now, you will simply end up with an apartment in the City of Death.
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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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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 am not a Hindu, Nor a Muslim, I am this body, a play Of five elements a drama Of the spirit dancing With joy and sorrow.
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I do not quote from the scriptures; I simply see what I see.
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As long as a human being worries about when he will die, and what he has that is his, all of his works are zero. When affection for the I-creature and what it owns is dead, then the work of the Teacher is over.
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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 make love with the divine now, in the next life you will have the face of satisfied desire.
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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 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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