The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.
KABIRNow I have no caste, no creed, I am no more what I am!
More Kabir Quotes
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My heart is so intoxicated with love that I have no wish to speak.
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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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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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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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Plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is, Believe in the Great Sound!
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When the flower opens, the bees will come.
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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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Forgiveness is a game only saints play Kabir.
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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 me brother! bring the vision of the Beloved in your heart.
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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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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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The purpose of labor is to learn; when you know it, the labor is over.
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My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.
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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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I went in search of a bad person; I found none as I, seeing myself, found me the worst.
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Listen to me, my Friend! My beloved Lord is within.
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The man who is kind and who practices righteousness, who remains passive against the affairs of the world, who considers all creatures on earth as his own self, he attains the Immortal Being; the true God is ever with him.
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Stand firm in that which you are.
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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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Listen, my friend. He who loves understands.
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I do not quote from the scriptures; I simply see what I see.
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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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Men have always looked before and after, and rebelled against the existing order. But for their divine discontent, men would not have been men, and there would have been no progress in human affairs.
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The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling.
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All darkness vanished, when I saw the Lamp within my heart.
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