When the flower opens, the bees will come.
KABIRSeeking Why run around sprinkling holy water? There’s an ocean inside you, and when you’re ready you’ll drink.
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. Think about it carefully! Don’t go off somewhere else! just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
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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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The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.
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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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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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Lift the veil that obscures the heart, and there you will find what you are looking for.
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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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What is a holy person? The one who is aware of others’ suffering.
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Stand firm in that which you are.
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Listen, my friend. He who loves understands.
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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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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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When you feel most alive, find out why, This is one guest you won’t greet twice.
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My heart is so intoxicated with love that I have no wish to speak.
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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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