Kabir Quotes

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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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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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When the bride is one
with her lover,
who cares about
the wedding party?

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Don't open your diamonds in a vegetable market. Tie them in bundle and keep them in your heart, and go your own way.

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One love it is that pervades the whole world, few there are who know it fully: They are blind who hope to see it by the light of reason, that reason which is the cause of separation - The house of reason is very far away!

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The purpose of labor is to learn;
when you know it, the labor is over.

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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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The flute of the infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is love.

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Kabîr says, "O Sadhu! God is the breath of all breath."
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There'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!

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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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I do not quote from the scriptures;
I simply see what I see.

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Hindus and Moslems alike have achieved that End, where remains no mark of distinction.
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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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On the harp of the road what true melodies are being sounded! and its notes pierce the heart:
There the Eternal Fountain is playing its endless life-streams of birth and death.

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I am looking at you,
You at him,
Kabir asks, how to solve
This puzzle —
You, he, and I?

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Do you believe there is some place that will make thesoul less thirsty? In that great absence you will find nothing.

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He comes to the Path of the Infinite on whom the grace of the Lord descends: he is freed from births and deaths who attains to Him.
Kabîr says: "It cannot be told by the words of the mouth, it cannot be written on paper: It is like a dumb person who tastes a sweet thing — how shall it be explained?"

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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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A drop
Melting into the sea,
Everyone can see.
But the sea
Absorped
In a drop —
A rare one
can follow!

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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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It is needless to ask of a saint the caste to which he belongs;
For the priest, the warrior. the tradesman, and all the thirty-six castes, alike are seeking for God.
It is but folly to ask what the caste of a saint may be;
The barber has sought God, the washerwoman, and the carpenter —
Even Raidas was a seeker after God.

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The apple blossom exists to create fruit; when that
comes, the petal falls.

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If you want the truth, I'll tell you the truth. Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you.

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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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