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?
KABIRBe 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.
More Kabir Quotes
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The apple blossom exists to create fruit; when that comes, the petal falls.
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Music without words means leaving behind the mind. And leaving behind the mind is meditation. Meditation returns you to the source. And the source of all is sound.
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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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What is a holy person? The one who is aware of others’ suffering.
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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 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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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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Forgiveness is a game only saints play Kabir.
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I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. I laugh when I hear that people go on pilgrimage to find God.
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The man who is kind and who practices righteousness, who remains passive against the affairs of the world, who considers all creatures on earth as his own self, he attains the Immortal Being; the true God is ever with him.
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If you don’t break your ropes while you’re alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?
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Faith,Waiting in the heart of a seed, Promises a miracle of life which cannot prove at once.
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When the flower opens, the bees will come.
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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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Listen to me brother! bring the vision of the Beloved in your heart.
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