The purpose of labor is to learn; when you know it, the labor is over.
KABIRAs 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.
More Kabir Quotes
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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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Do not keep the slanderer away, treat him with affection and honor: Body and soul, he scours all clean, babbling about this and that.
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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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When the bride is one with her lover, who cares about the wedding party?
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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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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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My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.
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I do not quote from the scriptures; I simply see what I see.
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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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Stand firm in that which you are.
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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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If you don’t break your ropes while you’re alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?
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Do 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.
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For millions of years you have slept. This morning, will you not wake?
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Lift the veil that obscures the heart, and there you will find what you are looking for.
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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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The essence of life is in remembering God.
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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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When you really look for me you will see me instantly.
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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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The sun is within me and so is the moon.
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When the flower opens, the bees will come.
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Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.
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Plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is, Believe in the Great Sound!
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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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Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
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