I laugh when I hear the fish in the water is thirsty.
KABIRIf you want the truth, I’ll tell you the truth. Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you.
More Kabir Quotes
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It is the spirit of the quest which helps.
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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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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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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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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 world will die, but I shall not die.If God dies, then I will die;If he does not die, then why should I die?
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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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Be quiet in your mind, quiet in your senses, and also quiet in your body. Then, when all these are quiet, don’t do anything. In that state truth will reveal itself to 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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A learned man’s knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn’t have control over his tongue.
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The essence of life is in remembering God.
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Listen to me, my Friend! My beloved Lord is within.
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But if a mirror ever makes you sad you should know that it does not know you.
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As the river surrenders itself to the ocean, what is inside me moves inside you.
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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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