Kabir Quotes - Page 4

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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

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

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.

There is nothing but water in the holy pools. I know, I have been swimming there. All the gods sculpted of wood or ivory can’t say a word. I know, I have been crying out to them. The Sacred Books of the East are nothing but words. I looked through their covers one day sideways. What Kabir talks of is only what he has lived through. If you have not lived through something, it is not true.

Now I have no caste, no creed, I am no more what I am!

It is time to put up a love-swing! Tie the body and then tie the mind so that they swing between the arms of the Secret One you love, Bring the water that falls from the clouds to your eyes, and cover yourself inside entirely with the shadow of night. Bring your face up close to his ear, and then talk only about what you want deeply to happen.

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

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

The sun is within me and so is the moon.

It is the spirit of the quest which helps

When the Guest is being searched for, it is the intensity of the longing for the Guest that does all the work. Look at me, and you will see a slave of that intensity.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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!