The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.
KABIRAre you looking for the Holy One? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours.
More Kabir Quotes
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My heart is so intoxicated with love that I have no wish to speak.
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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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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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Listen, my friend. He who loves understands.
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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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All darkness vanished, when I saw the Lamp within my heart.
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The apple blossom exists to create fruit; when that comes, the petal falls.
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As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.
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My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.
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What is found now is found then. If you find nothing now, you will simply end up with an apartment in the City of Death.
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If you don’t break your ropes while you’re alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?
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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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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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But if a mirror ever makes you sad you should know that it does not know you.
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When the flower opens, the bees will come.
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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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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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Do 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.
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The Lord is in me, the Lord is in you,as life is in every seed, put false pride away and seek the Lord within.
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The river that flows in you also flows in me.
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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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I do not quote from the scriptures; I simply see what I see.
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Do what you do with another human being, but never put them out of your heart.
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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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One love it is that pervades the whole world, few there are who know it fully: They are blind who hope to see it by the light of reason, that reason which is the cause of separation – The house of reason is very far away!
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The sun is within me and so is the moon.
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