If you want the truth, I’ll tell you the truth. Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you.
KABIRWhen you feel most alive, find out why, This is one guest you won’t greet twice.
More Kabir Quotes
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Lift the veil that obscures the heart, and there you will find what you are looking for.
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Plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is, Believe in the Great Sound!
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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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Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet.
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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.
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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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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I do not quote from the scriptures; I simply see what I see.
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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 haven’t experienced it, it’s not true.
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The apple blossom exists to create fruit; when that comes, the petal falls.
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Don’t open your diamonds in a vegetable market. Tie them in bundle and keep them in your heart, and go your own way.
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The purpose of labor is to learn; when you know it, the labor is over.
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I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling.
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Path presupposes distance; If He be near, no path needest thou at all. Verily it maketh me smile To hear of a fish in water athirst!
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