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 apple blossom exists to create fruit; when that comes, the petal falls.
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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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Listen, my friend. He who loves understands.
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When the bride is one with her lover, who cares about the wedding party?
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The sun is within me and so is the moon.
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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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Seeking Why run around sprinkling holy water? There’s an ocean inside you, and when you’re ready you’ll drink.
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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 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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I went in search of a bad person; I found none as I, seeing myself, found me the worst.
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I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.
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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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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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Listen to your own Self. If you listen to that Self within, then you find the Truth.
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Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert, when all around you there is nothing but water!
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