Reading books everyone died, none became any wise. One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.
KABIRReading books everyone died, none became any wise. One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.
KABIROnly in the heart can one experience the divine presence of truth.
KABIRWhat is found now is found then. If you find nothing now, you will simply end up with an apartment in the City of Death.
KABIRDo not go to the garden of flowers! O friend! go not there; In your body is the garden of flowers. Take your seat on the thousand petals of the lotus, and there gaze on the infinite beauty.
KABIRWhat is a holy person? The one who is aware of others’ suffering.
KABIRBe strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet.
KABIRDo not keep the slanderer away, treat him with affection and honor: Body and soul, he scours all clean, babbling about this and that.
KABIRPlunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is, Believe in the Great Sound!
KABIRBe 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.
KABIRThe external forces conceal from the eyes the deep meaning of existence; True faith resides in the heart.
KABIRPath 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!
KABIRI laugh when I hear the fish in the water is thirsty.
KABIRThe 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?
KABIRAdmire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.
KABIRI laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. I laugh when I hear that people go on pilgrimage to find God.
KABIRWhen 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.
KABIR