The apple blossom exists to create fruit; when that comes, the petal falls.
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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I laugh when I hear the fish in the water is thirsty.
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If you want the truth, I’ll tell you the truth. Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you.
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Seeking Why run around sprinkling holy water? There’s an ocean inside you, and when you’re ready you’ll drink.
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The savor of wandering in the ocean of deathless life has rid me of all my asking: As the tree is in the seed, so all diseases are in this asking.
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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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Nada is found within. It is a music without strings which plays in the body. It penetrates the inner and outer and leads you away from illusion.
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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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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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Do not praise yourself not slander others: There are still many days to go and any thing could happen.
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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.
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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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Be quiet in your mind, quiet in your senses, and also quiet in your body. Then, when all these are quiet, don’t do anything. In that state truth will reveal itself to you.
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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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Forgiveness is a game only saints play Kabir.
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Love does not grow on trees or brought in the market, but if one wants to be “LOVED” one must first know how to give (unconditional) LOVE.
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I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.
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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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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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Listen, my friend. He who loves understands.
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Stand firm in that which you are.
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Listen to me, my Friend! My beloved Lord is within.
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But if a mirror ever makes you sad you should know that it does not know you.
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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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Only in the heart can one experience the divine presence of truth.
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When the flower opens, the bees will come.
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