Kabir Quotes

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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.

Kabir
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!

Kabir
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!

Kabir
I've burned my own house down, the torch is in my hand.
Now I'll burn down the house of anyone who wants to follow me.

Kabir
The Lord is in me, the Lord is in you, as life is in every seed, put false pride away and seek the Lord within..

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

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

Kabir
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!

Kabir
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.

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

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

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I do not quote from the scriptures;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

Kabir
I am not a Hindu,
Nor a Muslim am I!
I am this body, a play
Of five elements; a drama
Of the spirit dancing
With joy and sorrow.

Kabir
Plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is, Believe in the Great Sound!

Kabir