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.
KABIRLook at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert, when all around you there is nothing but water!
More Kabir Quotes
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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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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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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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The sun is within me and so is the moon.
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The flute of the infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is love.
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Only in the heart can one experience the divine presence of truth.
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I do not quote from the scriptures; I simply see what I see.
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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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Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet.
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The essence of life is in remembering God.
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Reading books everyone died, none became any wise. One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.
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Music 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.
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Do not praise yourself not slander others: There are still many days to go and any thing could happen.
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Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.
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I laugh when I hear the fish in the water is thirsty.
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When you really look for me you will see me instantly.
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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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The river that flows in you also flows in me.
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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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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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When you feel most alive, find out why, This is one guest you won’t greet twice.
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Why are we here? To become ourselves in you.
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I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.
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It is the spirit of the quest which helps.
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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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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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