As long as a human being worries about when he will die, and what he has that is his, all of his works are zero. When affection for the I-creature and what it owns is dead, then the work of the Teacher is over.
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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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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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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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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Seeking Why run around sprinkling holy water? There’s an ocean inside you, and when you’re ready you’ll drink.
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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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The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.
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Wear a crown of flowers on your head, let its roots reach your heart.
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The river that flows in you also flows in me.
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If you haven’t experienced it, it’s not true.
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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.
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The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling.
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God, provide me with enough sustenance that my family is taken care of, that neither I remain hungry, nor does my guest go unfed.
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My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.
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Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
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I don’t think there is such a thing as an intelligent mega-rich person. For who with a fine mind can look out upon this world and hoard what can nourish a thousand souls.
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