It is the spirit of the quest which helps.
KABIRI laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling.
More Kabir Quotes
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Wherever you are, that’s the entry point.
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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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If you don’t break your ropes while you’re alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?
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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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Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you. The one no one talks of speaks the secret sound to himself, and he is the one who has made it all.
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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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Listen to me brother! bring the vision of the Beloved in your heart.
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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.
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Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.
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I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling.
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Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet.
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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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If you haven’t experienced it, it’s not true.
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Path presupposes distance; If He be near, no path needest thou at all. Verily it maketh me smile To hear of a fish in water athirst!
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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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