Do not keep the slanderer away, treat him with affection and honor: Body and soul, he scours all clean, babbling about this and that.
KABIRWhat is a holy person? The one who is aware of others’ suffering.
More Kabir Quotes
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A diamond was laying in the street covered with dirt. Many fools passed by. Someone who knew diamonds picked it up.
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Though One Brahman is the Cause of the Many. Behold but One in all things it is the second that leads you astray.
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I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. You don’t grasp the fact that what is most alive of all is inside your own house; and so you walk from one holy city to the next with a confused look!
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Don’t open your diamonds in a vegetable market. Tie them in bundle and keep them in your heart, and go your own way.
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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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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.
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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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All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
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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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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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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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It is the spirit of the quest which helps.
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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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Love does not grow on trees or brought in the market, but if one wants to be “LOVED” one must first know how to give (unconditional) LOVE.
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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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If you don’t break your ropes while you’re alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?
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When the flower opens, the bees will come.
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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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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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Wherever you are, that’s the entry point.
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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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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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But if a mirror ever makes you sad you should know that it does not know you.
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Wear a crown of flowers on your head, let its roots reach your heart.
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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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If you make love with the divine now, in the next life you will have the face of satisfied desire.
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