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.
KABIRDo not go to the garden of flowers! O friend! go not there; In your body is the garden of flowers. Take your seat on the thousand petals of the lotus, and there gaze on the infinite beauty.
More Kabir Quotes
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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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Nada is found within. It is a music without strings which plays in the body. It penetrates the inner and outer and leads you away from illusion.
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Do what you do with another human being, but never put them out of your heart.
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As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.
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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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Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.
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Be 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.
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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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The flute of the infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is love.
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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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The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling.
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As the river surrenders itself to the ocean, what is inside me moves inside you.
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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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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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Why are we here? To become ourselves in you.
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