A learned man’s knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn’t have control over his tongue.
KABIRThe external forces conceal from the eyes the deep meaning of existence; True faith resides in the heart.
More Kabir Quotes
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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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Do what you do with another human being, but never put them out of your heart.
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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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Do you believe there is some place that will make thesoul less thirsty? In that great absence you will find nothing.
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I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.
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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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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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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?
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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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Listen to me, my Friend! My beloved Lord is within.
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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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It is the spirit of the quest which helps.
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The Beloved is inside you and also inside me. You know the tree is hidden inside the seed. Let your arrogance go. None of us has gone far. Inside love there is more power than we realize.
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I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days and God came to me.
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As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.
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