The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.
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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My heart is so intoxicated with love that I have no wish to speak.
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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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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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When you really look for me you will see me instantly.
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Now I have no caste, no creed, I am no more what I am!
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Plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is, Believe in the Great Sound!
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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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Lift the veil that obscures the heart, and there you will find what you are looking for.
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Do what you do with another human being, but never put them out of your heart.
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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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But if a mirror ever makes you sad you should know that it does not know you.
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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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Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.
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I laugh when I hear the fish in the water is thirsty.
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For millions of years you have slept. This morning, will you not wake?
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