Kabir Quotes

#1. Just throw away all thoughts of
imaginary things,
and stand firm in that which you are.

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#2. 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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#3. 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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#4. Seeking Why run around sprinkling holy water? There's an ocean inside you, and when you're ready you'll drink.

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#5. Listen to me, my Friend! My beloved Lord is within.

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#6. 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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#7. Wherever you are is the entry point

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

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#9. Whether I be in the temple or in the balcony, in the camp or the flower garden, I tell you truly that every moment my Lord is taking His delight in me.

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#10. I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days and God came to me.

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#11. You have left Your Beloved and are thinking of others:
and this is why your work is in vain.

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#12. There is dew
on these poems in the morning,
and at night a cool breeze may rise from them.
In the winter they are blankets, in the summer a place to swim.
I like talking to you like this. Have you moved
a step closer?
Soon we may be
kissing.

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#13. All darkness vanished, when I saw the Lamp within my heart.

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#14. When you feel most alive, find out why, This is one guest you won't greet twice.

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#15. 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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#16. The Kazi is searching the words of the Koran, and instructing others:
but if his heart be not steeped in that love, what does it avail, though he be a teacher of men?

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#17. My heart is so intoxicated with love that I have no wish to speak.

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#18. Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert,
when all around you there is nothing but water!

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#19. 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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#20. The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling

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#21. Plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is, Believe in the Great Sound!

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#22. When at last you are come to the ocean of happiness, do not go back thirsty.

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#23. Within the body there is played
Music unending, though without stringed instruments
That music of the Word pervades the entire creation
Who listens to it is freed from all illusion

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#24. My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.

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#25. If you haven't experienced it, it's not true.

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#26. The stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail.

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#27. As the river surrenders itself to the ocean, what is inside me moves inside you.

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#28. Inside this clay jug there are canyons and pine mountains,
and the maker of canyons and mountains!
All seven oceans are inside, and hundreds of millions of stars.

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#29. I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.

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#30. Faith,Waiting in the heart of a seed, Promises a miracle of life which cannot prove at once.

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#31. All know that the drop merges into the ocean, but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.

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#32. Do what you do with another human being, but never put them out of your heart.

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#33. The savor of wandering in the ocean of deathless life has rid me of all my asking:
As the tree is in the seed, so all diseases are in this asking.

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#34. Path presupposes distance; If He be near, no path needest thou at all. Verily it maketh me smile To hear of a fish in water athirst!

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#35. If you cannot understand something, then you have understood it incorrectly.

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#36. 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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#37. Wherever you are, that's the entry point.

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#38. Between the poles of the conscious and the unconscious, there has the mind made a swing:
Thereon hang all beings and all worlds, and that swing never ceases its sway. (pg. 16)

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#39. A sore pain troubles me day and night, and I cannot sleep; I long for the meeting with my Beloved, and my father's house gives me pleasure no more. The gates of the sky are opened, the temple is revealed: I meet my husband, and leave at His feet the offering of my body and my mind.

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#40. 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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#41. The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.

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#42. If you don't break your ropes while you're alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?

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#43. 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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#44. 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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#45. As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.

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#46. 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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#47. Listen to me brother! bring the
vision of the Beloved in your heart

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#48. If it were possible to meet the Beloved while laughing and in a state of comfort, why should one suffer the anguish of separation?

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#49. 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.

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#50. Life the veil that obscures the heart, and there you will find what you are looking for.

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#51. Wear a crown of flowers on your head, let its roots reach your heart

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#52. As long as I talked unceasingly about the Lord,The Lord stayed away, kept at a distance.But when I silenced my mouth, sat very stillAnd fixed my mind at the doorway of the Lord,I was linked to the music of the Word,And all my talking came to an end.

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#53. the sun is within me and so is the moon

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#54. Do not praise yourself not slander others: There are still many days to go and any thing could happen.

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#55. Sing such a song with all of your heart that you'll never have to sing again.

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#56. If you make love with the divine now, in the next lifeyou will have the face of satisfied desire.

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#57. 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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#58. Music without words means
leaving behind the mind.
And leaving behind the mind
is meditation.
Meditation returns you
to the source.
And the source of all is sound.

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#59. 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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#60. The external forces conceal from the eyes the deep meaning of existence; True faith resides in the heart.

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#61. For millions of years you have slept. This morning, will you not wake?

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#62. 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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#63. 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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#64. What is a holy person? The one who is aware of others' suffering.

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#65. Kabir says, only they are pure who've completely cleansed their thinking.

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#66. I am not a Hindu, Nor a Muslim am II am this body, a playOf five elements a dramaOf the spirit dancing With joy and sorrow.

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#67. Listen to your own Self. If you listen to that Self within, then you find the Truth.

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#68. Forgiveness is a game only saints play Kabir.

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#69. 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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#70. I went in search of a bad person; I found none as I, seeing myself, found me the worst.

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#71. If by worshipping stones one can find God, I shall worship a mountain. If by immersion in the water salvation be attained, the frogs who bathe continually would attain it. As the frogs, so are these men, again and again fall into the womb.

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#72. When you really look for me you will see me instantly.

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#73. Reading books everyone died, none became any wise.
One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.

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#74. 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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#75. So high is my Lord's palace, my heart trembles to mount its stairs: yet I must not be shy, if I would enjoy His love.

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#76. 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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#77. Stand firm in that which you are.

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#78. I laugh when I hear the fish in the water is thirsty.

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#79. Be quiet in your mind, quiet in your senses, and also quiet in your body. Then, when all these are quiet, don't do anything. In that state truth will reveal itself to you.

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

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#81. The essence of life is in remembering God.

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#82. Love does not grown 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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#83. O friend! hope for Him whilst you live, know whilst you live,
understand whilst you live: for in life deliverance abides.
If your bonds be not broken whilst living, what hope of deliverance in death?

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#84. Only in the heart can one experience the divine presence of truth.

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#85. 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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#86. So long as man clamours for the I and Mine, his works are as naught: When all love of the I and the Mine is dead, then the work of the Lord is done.

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#87. Listen, my friend. He who loves understands.

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

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#89. When the flower opens, the bees will come.

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#90. Now I have no caste, no creed,
I am no more what I am!

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#91. It is the spirit of the quest which helps

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#92. 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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#93. Men have always looked before and after, and rebelled against the existing order. But for their divine discontent, men would not have been men, and there would have been no progress in human affairs.

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#94. Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet.

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#95. Slowly slowly O mind ...
Everything in own pace happens,
Gardner may water a hundred buckets ...
Fruit arrives only in its season.

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#96. The home is the abiding place; in the home is reality; the home helps to attain Him Who is real. So stay where you are, and all things shall come to you in time.

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#97. But if a mirror ever makes
you sad
you should know
that it does
not know
you.

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

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#100. 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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