The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.
KABIRI 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.
More Kabir Quotes
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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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Faith,Waiting in the heart of a seed, Promises a miracle of life which cannot prove at once.
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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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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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Wherever you are, that’s the entry point.
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As 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.
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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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The stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail.
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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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Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
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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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The flute of the infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is love.
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Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you. The one no one talks of speaks the secret sound to himself, and he is the one who has made it all.
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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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When the Guest is being searched for, it is the intensity of the longing for the Guest that does all the work. Look at me, and you will see a slave of that intensity.
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