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.
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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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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Though One Brahman is the Cause of the Many. Behold but One in all things it is the second that leads you astray.
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The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.
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The apple blossom exists to create fruit; when that comes, the petal falls.
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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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Only in the heart can one experience the divine presence of truth.
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If you don’t break your ropes while you’re alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?
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The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling.
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Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet. Think about it carefully! Don’t go off somewhere else! just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
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A learned man’s knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn’t have control over his tongue.
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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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Forgiveness is a game only saints play Kabir.
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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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Are you looking for the Holy One? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours.
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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.
KABIR