If you haven’t experienced it, it’s not true.
KABIRDo you believe there is some place that will make thesoul less thirsty? In that great absence you will find nothing.
More Kabir Quotes
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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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The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling.
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Do not praise yourself not slander others: There are still many days to go and any thing could happen.
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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 Beloved is inside you and also inside me. You know the tree is hidden inside the seed. Let your arrogance go. None of us has gone far. Inside love there is more power than we realize.
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For millions of years you have slept. This morning, will you not wake?
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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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Why are we here? To become ourselves in you.
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It is the spirit of the quest which helps.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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