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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Kabir98 quotes“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 instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.
KabirKabir Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
KabirKabir 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!
KabirKabir Be 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.
KabirKabir The river that flows in you also flows in me.
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KabirKabir 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!
KabirKabir Listen, my friend. He who loves understands.
KabirKabir If you make love with the divine now, in the next life you will have the face of satisfied desire.
KabirKabir Lift the veil that obscures the heart, and there you will find what you are looking for.
KabirKabir The world will die, but I shall not die.If God dies, then I will die;If he does not die, then why should I die?
KabirKabir But if a mirror ever makes you sad you should know that it does not know you.
KabirKabir Do what you do with another human being, but never put them out of your heart.
KabirKabir Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.
KabirKabir Seeking Why run around sprinkling holy water? There’s an ocean inside you, and when you’re ready you’ll drink.
KabirKabir 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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