Seeking Why run around sprinkling holy water? There’s an ocean inside you, and when you’re ready you’ll drink.
KABIRDo what you do with another human being, but never put them out of your heart.
More Kabir Quotes
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The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.
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The sun is within me and so is the moon.
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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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As long as I talked unceasingly about the Lord,The Lord stayed away, kept at a distance.But when I silenced my mouth, sat very stillAnd fixed my mind at the doorway of the Lord,I was linked to the music of the Word,And all my talking came to an end.
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Only in the heart can one experience the divine presence of truth.
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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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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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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 went in search of a bad person; I found none as I, seeing myself, found me the worst.
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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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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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Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
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When the flower opens, the bees will come.
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Listen, my friend. He who loves understands.
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