Sing such a song with all of your heart that you’ll never have to sing again.
KABIRIf you don’t break your ropes while you’re alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?
More Kabir Quotes
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Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
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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 you really look for me you will see me instantly.
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I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. You don’t grasp the fact that what is most alive of all is inside your own house; and so you walk from one holy city to the next with a confused look!
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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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My heart is so intoxicated with love that I have no wish to speak.
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Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.
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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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Do you believe there is some place that will make thesoul less thirsty? In that great absence you will find nothing.
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I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.
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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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Music without words means leaving behind the mind. And leaving behind the mind is meditation. Meditation returns you to the source. And the source of all is sound.
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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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Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet.
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Stand firm in that which you are.
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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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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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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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Though One Brahman is the Cause of the Many. Behold but One in all things it is the second that leads you astray.
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If you want the truth, I’ll tell you the truth. Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you.
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The truth of love is the truth of the universe: it is the lamp of the soul that reveals the secrets of darkness.
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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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Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain.
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The sun is within me and so is the moon.
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Lift the veil that obscures the heart, and there you will find what you are looking for.
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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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