I laugh when I hear the fish in the water is thirsty.
KABIRStudent, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.
More Kabir Quotes
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If you haven’t experienced it, it’s not true.
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All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
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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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Stand firm in that which you are.
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Plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is, Believe in the Great Sound!
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The purpose of labor is to learn; when you know it, the labor is over.
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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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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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My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.
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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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The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.
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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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I’ve burned my own house down, the torch is in my hand.Now I’ll burn down the house of anyone who wants to follow me.
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A learned man’s knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn’t have control over his tongue.
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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 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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The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling.
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When the flower opens, the bees will come.
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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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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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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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The stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail.
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I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. I laugh when I hear that people go on pilgrimage to find God.
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The flute of the infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is love.
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The man who is kind and who practices righteousness, who remains passive against the affairs of the world, who considers all creatures on earth as his own self, he attains the Immortal Being; the true God is ever with him.
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The savor of wandering in the ocean of deathless life has rid me of all my asking: As the tree is in the seed, so all diseases are in this asking.
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