Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.
KABIRAs long as I talked unceasingly about the Lord,The Lord stayed away, kept at a distance.But when I silenced my mouth, sat very stillAnd fixed my mind at the doorway of the Lord,I was linked to the music of the Word,And all my talking came to an end.
More Kabir Quotes
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A diamond was laying in the street covered with dirt. Many fools passed by. Someone who knew diamonds picked it up.
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Listen, my friend. He who loves understands.
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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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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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Are you looking for the Holy One? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours.
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Wherever you are, that’s the entry point.
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Do what you do with another human being, but never put them out of your heart.
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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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Faith,Waiting in the heart of a seed, Promises a miracle of life which cannot prove at once.
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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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I don’t think there is such a thing as an intelligent mega-rich person. For who with a fine mind can look out upon this world and hoard what can nourish a thousand souls.
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Forgiveness is a game only saints play Kabir.
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When you feel most alive, find out why, This is one guest you won’t greet twice.
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Only in the heart can one experience the divine presence of truth.
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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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Listen to me, my Friend! My beloved Lord is within.
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Take a pitcher full of water and set it down in the water-now it has water inside and water outside. We mustn’t give it a name, lest silly people start talking again about the body and the soul.
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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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It is the spirit of the quest which helps.
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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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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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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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My heart is so intoxicated with love that I have no wish to speak.
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I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling.
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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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Plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is, Believe in the Great Sound!
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