Don’t open your diamonds in a vegetable market. Tie them in bundle and keep them in your heart, and go your own way.
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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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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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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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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Listen to your own Self. If you listen to that Self within, then you find the Truth.
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All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
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Reading books everyone died, none became any wise. One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.
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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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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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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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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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Wear a crown of flowers on your head, let its roots reach your heart.
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The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling.
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Why are we here? To become ourselves in you.
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As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.
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