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?
KABIRPath 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!
More Kabir Quotes
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The external forces conceal from the eyes the deep meaning of existence; True faith resides in the heart.
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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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What is a holy person? The one who is aware of others’ suffering.
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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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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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Listen to me, my Friend! My beloved Lord is within.
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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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Faith,Waiting in the heart of a seed, Promises a miracle of life which cannot prove at once.
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The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling.
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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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The apple blossom exists to create fruit; when that comes, the petal falls.
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Wear a crown of flowers on your head, let its roots reach your heart.
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Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
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Sing such a song with all of your heart that you’ll never have to sing again.
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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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As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.
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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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Now I have no caste, no creed, I am no more what I am!
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There is no river at all, and no boat, and no boatman. There is not even a rope to tow the boat, and no one to pull it. There is no earth, no sky, no time, no thing, no shore, no ford!
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Listen to your own Self. If you listen to that Self within, then you find the Truth.
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Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain.
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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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All darkness vanished, when I saw the Lamp within my heart.
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I went in search of a bad person; I found none as I, seeing myself, found me the worst.
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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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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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