If you don’t break your ropes while you’re alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?
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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Only in the heart can one experience the divine presence of truth.
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If you haven’t experienced it, it’s not true.
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Do not praise yourself not slander others: There are still many days to go and any thing could happen.
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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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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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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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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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I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.
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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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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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Seeking Why run around sprinkling holy water? There’s an ocean inside you, and when you’re ready you’ll drink.
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Do what you do with another human being, but never put them out of your heart.
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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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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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The sun is within me and so is the moon.
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