Go over and over your beads, paint weird designs on your forehead, wear your hear matted, long, and ostentatious, but when deep inside you there is a loaded gun, how can you have God?
KABIRMusic 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.
More Kabir Quotes
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The essence of life is in remembering God.
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Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet.
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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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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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Wear a crown of flowers on your head, let its roots reach your heart.
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Do what you do with another human being, but never put them out of your heart.
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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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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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I went in search of a bad person; I found none as I, seeing myself, found me the worst.
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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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What is a holy person? The one who is aware of others’ suffering.
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Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
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The apple blossom exists to create fruit; when that comes, the petal falls.
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Wherever you are, that’s the entry point.
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When the bride is one with her lover, who cares about the wedding party?
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