Seeking Why run around sprinkling holy water? There’s an ocean inside you, and when you’re ready you’ll drink.
KABIRSeeking Why run around sprinkling holy water? There’s an ocean inside you, and when you’re ready you’ll drink.
KABIRFaith,Waiting in the heart of a seed, Promises a miracle of life which cannot prove at once.
KABIRFor millions of years you have slept. This morning, will you not wake?
KABIRAs the river surrenders itself to the ocean, what is inside me moves inside you.
KABIRBe 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.
KABIRDon’t open your diamonds in a vegetable market. Tie them in bundle and keep them in your heart, and go your own way.
KABIRAll know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
KABIRIf you want the truth, I’ll tell you the truth. Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you.
KABIRIt is the spirit of the quest which helps.
KABIRI do not quote from the scriptures; I simply see what I see.
KABIRLook at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert, when all around you there is nothing but water!
KABIRBe 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.
KABIRThere 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!
KABIRThe instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.
KABIRDo not keep the slanderer away, treat him with affection and honor: Body and soul, he scours all clean, babbling about this and that.
KABIRThe Lord is in me, the Lord is in you,as life is in every seed, put false pride away and seek the Lord within.
KABIR