black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Listen, my friend. He who loves understands.

Kabir

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!
KABIR

Body Hands Moon Myself Sun
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!
KABIR

Distance Myself Smile Water
My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.
KABIR

Flash Lightening Myself Oneself Sky
The sun is within me and so is the moon.
KABIR

Moon Myself Sun
Do not praise yourself not slander others: There are still many days to go and any thing could happen.
KABIR

Day Humble Praise Slander
Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.
KABIR

Breathe God Himself Myself Student
Listen to me brother! bring the vision of the Beloved in your heart.
KABIR

Beloved Heart Listening Myself Vision
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.
KABIR

Burn Follow Hands Home Myself
Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you. The one no one talks of speaks the secret sound to himself, and he is the one who has made it all.
KABIR

Himself Listening Reality Secret Sound
Now I have no caste, no creed, I am no more what I am!
KABIR

Caste Myself
Lift the veil that obscures the heart, and there you will find what you are looking for.
KABIR

Finding Heart Willing Yourself
The purpose of labor is to learn; when you know it, the labor is over.
KABIR

Labor Learning Over Purpose
I do not quote from the scriptures; I simply see what I see.
KABIR

Myself Quote Scripture See Simplicity
I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.
KABIR

Blind City Mirrors Myself
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!
KABIR

Earth Illusion Oneself Reality River Time
Stand firm in that which you are.
KABIR

Firm Stand Yourself

Listen, my friend. He who loves understands.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Listen, my friend. He who loves understands.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Kabir Quotes