Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain.
KABIRThere’s a moon in my body, but I can’t see it! A moon and a sun. A drum never touched by hands, beating, and I can’t hear it!
More Kabir Quotes
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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?
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The Beloved is inside you and also inside me. You know the tree is hidden inside the seed. Let your arrogance go. None of us has gone far. Inside love there is more power than we realize.
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The man who is kind and who practices righteousness, who remains passive against the affairs of the world, who considers all creatures on earth as his own self, he attains the Immortal Being; the true God is ever with him.
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Are you looking for the Holy One? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours.
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Stand firm in that which you are.
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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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What is found now is found then. If you find nothing now, you will simply end up with an apartment in the City of Death.
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Only in the heart can one experience the divine presence of truth.
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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!
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Wherever you are, that’s the entry point.
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The truth of love is the truth of the universe: it is the lamp of the soul that reveals the secrets of darkness.
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The purpose of labor is to learn; when you know it, the labor is over.
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Do what you do with another human being, but never put them out of your heart.
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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!
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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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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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The sun is within me and so is the moon.
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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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Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
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Now I have no caste, no creed, I am no more what I am!
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When the flower opens, the bees will come.
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My heart is so intoxicated with love that I have no wish to speak.
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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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My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.
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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.
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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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