Wear a crown of flowers on your head, let its roots reach your heart.
KABIRWhat is a holy person? The one who is aware of others’ suffering.
More Kabir Quotes
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Listen, my friend. He who loves understands.
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Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet. Think about it carefully! Don’t go off somewhere else! just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
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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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But if a mirror ever makes you sad you should know that it does not know you.
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The Lord is in me, the Lord is in you,as life is in every seed, put false pride away and seek the Lord within.
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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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Music 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.
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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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When the bride is one with her lover, who cares about the wedding party?
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I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling.
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When you feel most alive, find out why, This is one guest you won’t greet twice.
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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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Faith,Waiting in the heart of a seed, Promises a miracle of life which cannot prove at once.
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I’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.
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Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert, when all around you there is nothing but water!
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