I do not quote from the scriptures; I simply see what I see.
KABIRGo 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?
More Kabir Quotes
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When the flower opens, the bees will come.
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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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The savor of wandering in the ocean of deathless life has rid me of all my asking: As the tree is in the seed, so all diseases are in this asking.
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A learned man’s knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn’t have control over his tongue.
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Listen to me brother! bring the vision of the Beloved in your heart.
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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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The external forces conceal from the eyes the deep meaning of existence; True faith resides in the heart.
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Why are we here? To become ourselves in you.
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Do what you do with another human being, but never put them out of your heart.
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I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days and God came to me.
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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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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 fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling.
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The purpose of labor is to learn; when you know it, the labor is over.
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A diamond was laying in the street covered with dirt. Many fools passed by. Someone who knew diamonds picked it up.
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