Kabir Quotes
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My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.
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All darkness vanished, when I saw the Lamp within my heart.
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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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My heart is so intoxicated with love that I have no wish to speak.
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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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Forgiveness is a game only saints play Kabir.
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Music without words means
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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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Reading books everyone died, none became any wise.
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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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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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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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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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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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Do not go to the garden of flowers!
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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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The external forces conceal from the eyes the deep meaning of existence; True faith resides in the 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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Wherever you are is the entry point.
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Listen, my friend.