If it were possible to meet the Beloved while laughing and in a state of comfort, why should one suffer the anguish of separation?
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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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.
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Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
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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.
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As long as a human being worries about when he will die, and what he has that is his, all of his works are zero. When affection for the I-creature and what it owns is dead, then the work of the Teacher is over.
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Listen to me brother! bring the vision of the Beloved in your heart.
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One love it is that pervades the whole world, few there are who know it fully: They are blind who hope to see it by the light of reason, that reason which is the cause of separation – The house of reason is very far away!
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If you don’t break your ropes while you’re alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?
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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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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 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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Faith,Waiting in the heart of a seed, Promises a miracle of life which cannot prove at once.
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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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The stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail.
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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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Do not go to the garden of flowers! O friend! go not there; In your body is the garden of flowers. Take your seat on the thousand petals of the lotus, and there gaze on the infinite beauty.
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