Kabir Quotes

Why are we here? To become ourselves in you.

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

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

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.

The essence of life is in remembering God.

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

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

Listen, my friend. He who loves understands.

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

When the flower opens, the bees will come.

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

Forgiveness is a game only saints play Kabir.

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

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

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

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

Everything has its advantages and disadvantages.

Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.

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

Are you looking for the Holy One? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours.

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?

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

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

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.

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.

Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.

Listen to me brother! bring the vision of the Beloved in your heart

God, provide me with enough sustenance that my family is taken care of, that neither I remain hungry, nor does my guest go unfed.

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!

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!

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

Do not keep the slanderer away, treat him with affection and honor: Body and soul, he scours all clean, babbling about this and that.

I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling.

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

It is the spirit of the quest which helps

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!

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

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.

Delhi is my emotional home. I still dream of owning a home there.

Stand firm in that which you are.

Though One Brahman is the Cause of the Many. ... Behold but One in all things it is the second that leads you astray.

The sun is within me and so is the moon.

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

Nada is found within. It is a music without strings which plays in the body. It penetrates the inner and outer and leads you away from illusion.

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

I'm not the sort to wallow in nostalgia about the good old days.

The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.

The person who makes all cares into one care the care for simply staying present will be cared for by that presence which is creative love.

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?

I also said, men are like curling irons, they never get out of your hair. And they are like government bonds, they take so long to mature.