As 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.
KABIRA diamond was laying in the street covered with dirt. Many fools passed by. Someone who knew diamonds picked it up.
More Kabir Quotes
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Listen, my friend. He who loves understands.
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Do not keep the slanderer away, treat him with affection and honor: Body and soul, he scours all clean, babbling about this and that.
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My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.
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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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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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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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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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The sun is within me and so is the moon.
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Why are we here? To become ourselves in you.
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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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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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Reading books everyone died, none became any wise. One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.
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Listen to me brother! bring the vision of the Beloved in your heart.
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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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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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If you haven’t experienced it, it’s not true.
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The essence of life is in remembering God.
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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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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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My heart is so intoxicated with love that I have no wish to speak.
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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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The external forces conceal from the eyes the deep meaning of existence; True faith resides in the heart.
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Stand firm in that which you are.
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Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.
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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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I went in search of a bad person; I found none as I, seeing myself, found me the worst.
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