Kabir Quotes - Page 2

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.

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

Why are we here? To become ourselves in you.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.

A diamond was laying in the street covered with dirt. Many fools passed by. Someone who knew diamonds picked it up.

Listen, my friend. He who loves understands.

Are you looking for me? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours. you will not find me in the stupas, not in Indian shrine rooms, nor in synagogues, nor in cathedrals: not in masses, nor kirtans, not in legs winding around your own neck, nor in eating nothing but vegetables. When you really look for me, you will see me instantly - you will find me in the tiniest house of time. Kabir says: Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.

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

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

The essence of life is in remembering God.

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

I talk to my inner lover, and I say, why such rush? We sense that there is some sort of spirit that loves birds and animals and the ants- perhaps the same one who gave a radiance to you in your mother's womb. Is it logical you would be walking around entirely orphaned now? The truth is you turned away yourself, and decided to go into the dark alone. Now you are tangled up in others, and have forgotten what you once knew, and that's why everything you do has some weird sense of failure in it.

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.

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

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