As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.
KABIRWhat is found now is found then. If you find nothing now, you will simply end up with an apartment in the City of Death.
More Kabir Quotes
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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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Wherever you are, that’s the entry point.
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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 river that flows in you also flows in me.
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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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I went in search of a bad person; I found none as I, seeing myself, found me the worst.
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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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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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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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Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert, when all around you there is nothing but water!
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There is no river at all, and no boat, and no boatman. There is not even a rope to tow the boat, and no one to pull it. There is no earth, no sky, no time, no thing, no shore, no ford!
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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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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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A diamond was laying in the street covered with dirt. Many fools passed by. Someone who knew diamonds picked it up.
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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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Don’t open your diamonds in a vegetable market. Tie them in bundle and keep them in your heart, and go your own way.
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Listen to your own Self. If you listen to that Self within, then you find the Truth.
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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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When you really look for me you will see me instantly.
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The purpose of labor is to learn; when you know it, the labor is over.
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Wear a crown of flowers on your head, let its roots reach your heart.
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Now I have no caste, no creed, I am no more what I am!
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I do not quote from the scriptures; I simply see what I see.
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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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When the bride is one with her lover, who cares about the wedding party?
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I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.
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