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.
KABIRDo not keep the slanderer away, treat him with affection and honor: Body and soul, he scours all clean, babbling about this and that.
More Kabir Quotes
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Are you looking for the Holy One? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours.
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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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Seeking Why run around sprinkling holy water? There’s an ocean inside you, and when you’re ready you’ll drink.
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The purpose of labor is to learn; when you know it, the labor is over.
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If it were possible to meet the Beloved while laughing and in a state of comfort, why should one suffer the anguish of separation?
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I do not quote from the scriptures; I simply see what I see.
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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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All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
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There’s a moon in my body, but I can’t see it! A moon and a sun. A drum never touched by hands, beating, and I can’t hear it!
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It is the spirit of the quest which helps.
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Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
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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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Nada is found within. It is a music without strings which plays in the body. It penetrates the inner and outer and leads you away from illusion.
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The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.
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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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