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.
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!
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I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days and God came to me.
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When you really look for me you will see me instantly.
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I went in search of a bad person; I found none as I, seeing myself, found me the worst.
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Path presupposes distance; If He be near, no path needest thou at all. Verily it maketh me smile To hear of a fish in water athirst!
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When the flower opens, the bees will come.
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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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I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.
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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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The sun is within me and so is the moon.
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The Beloved is inside you and also inside me. You know the tree is hidden inside the seed. Let your arrogance go. None of us has gone far. Inside love there is more power than we realize.
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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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Plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is, Believe in the Great Sound!
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It is the spirit of the quest which helps.
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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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Go over and over your beads, paint weird designs on your forehead, wear your hear matted, long, and ostentatious, but when deep inside you there is a loaded gun, how can you have God?
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My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.
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Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.
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Sing such a song with all of your heart that you’ll never have to sing again.
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The flute of the infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is love.
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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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The savor of wandering in the ocean of deathless life has rid me of all my asking: As the tree is in the seed, so all diseases are in this asking.
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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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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 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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The apple blossom exists to create fruit; when that comes, the petal falls.
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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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