Wear a crown of flowers on your head, let its roots reach your heart.
KABIRI 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!
More Kabir Quotes
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The essence of life is in remembering God.
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When the bride is one with her lover, who cares about the wedding party?
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Lift the veil that obscures the heart, and there you will find what you are looking for.
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Now I have no caste, no creed, I am no more what I am!
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What is a holy person? The one who is aware of others’ suffering.
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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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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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Take 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.
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If you want the truth, I’ll tell you the truth. Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you.
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All darkness vanished, when I saw the Lamp within my heart.
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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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The truth of love is the truth of the universe: it is the lamp of the soul that reveals the secrets of darkness.
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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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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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When the flower opens, the bees will come.
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