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.
KABIRBe 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.
KABIRWhat is found now is found then. If you find nothing now, you will simply end up with an apartment in the City of Death.
KABIRWhen you really look for me you will see me instantly.
KABIRLook at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert, when all around you there is nothing but water!
KABIRAll darkness vanished, when I saw the Lamp within my heart.
KABIRIf it were possible to meet the Beloved while laughing and in a state of comfort, why should one suffer the anguish of separation?
KABIRThe purpose of labor is to learn; when you know it, the labor is over.
KABIRWhat is a holy person? The one who is aware of others’ suffering.
KABIRWhen the bride is one with her lover, who cares about the wedding party?
KABIRMen 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.
KABIRAs 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.
KABIRAs 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.
KABIRMusic without words means leaving behind the mind. And leaving behind the mind is meditation. Meditation returns you to the source. And the source of all is sound.
KABIRThere’s a moon in my body, but I can’t see it! A moon and a sun. A drum never touched by hands, beating, and I can’t hear it!
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.
KABIRIt is the spirit of the quest which helps.
KABIR