Kabir Quotes
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What is a holy person? The one who is aware of others' suffering.
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If you make love with the divine now, in the next lifeyou will have the face of satisfied desire.
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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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Are you looking for the Holy One? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours.
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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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Plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is, Believe in the Great Sound!
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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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There is nothing but water in the holy pools. I know, I have been swimming there. All the gods sculpted of wood or ivory can’t say a word. I know, I have been crying out to them. The Sacred Books of the East are nothing but words. I looked through their covers one day sideways. What Kabir talks of is only what he has lived through. If you have not lived through something, it is not true.
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Wear a crown of flowers on your head, let its roots reach your heart
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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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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.
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When 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.
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As the river surrenders itself to the ocean, what is inside me moves inside you.
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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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Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
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I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days and God came to me.
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Take a pitcher full of water and set it down in the water-now it has water inside and water outside. We mustn't give it a name, lest silly people start talking again about the body and the soul.
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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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The external forces conceal from the eyes the deep meaning of existence; True faith resides in the heart.
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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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Wherever you are, that's the entry point.
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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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My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.
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If you haven't experienced it, it's not true.
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Love does not grow on trees or brought in the market, but if one wants to be "LOVED" one must first know how to give (unconditional) LOVE.
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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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Do what you do with another human being, but never put them out of your heart.
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A diamond was laying in the street covered with dirt. Many fools passed by. Someone who knew diamonds picked it up.
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The stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail.
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He is the real Guru Who can reveal the form of the formless before your eyes; who teaches the simple path, without rites or ceremonies; Who does not make you close your doors, and hold your breath, and renounce the world; Who makes you perceive the Supreme Spirit whenever the mind attaches itself; Who teaches you to be still in the midst of all your activities. Fearless, always immersed in bliss, he keeps the spirit of yoga in the midst of enjoyments.
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