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.
KABIRThere 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!
More Kabir Quotes
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The sun is within me and so is the moon.
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Listen to me brother! bring the vision of the Beloved in your heart.
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Don’t open your diamonds in a vegetable market. Tie them in bundle and keep them in your heart, and go your own way.
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My heart is so intoxicated with love that I have no wish to speak.
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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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Within the body there is played Music unending, though without stringed instruments That music of the Word pervades the entire creation Who listens to it is freed from all illusion.
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Though One Brahman is the Cause of the Many. Behold but One in all things it is the second that leads you astray.
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If you make love with the divine now, in the next life you will have the face of satisfied desire.
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When you really look for me you will see me instantly.
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I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. You don’t grasp the fact that what is most alive of all is inside your own house; and so you walk from one holy city to the next with a confused look!
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Do what you do with another human being, but never put them out of your heart.
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All darkness vanished, when I saw the Lamp within my heart.
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Forgiveness is a game only saints play Kabir.
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The stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail.
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The flute of the infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is love.
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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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When the Guest is being searched for, it is the intensity of the longing for the Guest that does all the work. Look at me, and you will see a slave of that intensity.
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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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Nada is found within. It is a music without strings which plays in the body. It penetrates the inner and outer and leads you away from illusion.
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I am not a Hindu, Nor a Muslim, I am this body, a play Of five elements a drama Of the spirit dancing With joy and sorrow.
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What is found now is found then. If you find nothing now, you will simply end up with an apartment in the City of Death.
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Wear a crown of flowers on your head, let its roots reach your heart.
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Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
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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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Take a pitcher full of water and set it down in the water-now it has water inside and water outside. We mustn’t give it a name, lest silly people start talking again about the body and the soul.
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The river that flows in you also flows in me.
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