Seeking Why run around sprinkling holy water? There's an ocean inside you, and when you're ready you'll drink.
When you feel most alive, find out why, This is one guest you won't greet twice.
The essence of life is in remembering God.
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.
Lift the veil that obscures the heart, and there you will find what you are looking for.
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?
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.
A learned man's knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn't have control over his tongue
I don't think there is such a thing as an intelligent mega-rich person. For who with a fine mind can look out upon this world and hoard what can nourish a thousand souls.
Do not praise yourself not slander others: There are still many days to go and any thing could happen.
I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. I laugh when I hear that people go on pilgrimage to find God.
Though One Brahman is the Cause of the Many. ... Behold but One in all things it is the second that leads you astray.
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?
Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.
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.
The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.
Are you looking for the Holy One? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours.
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.
All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
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
Wherever you are, that's the entry point.
Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet. Think about it carefully! Don't go off somewhere else! ...just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
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!
Don't open your diamonds in a vegetable market. Tie them in bundle and keep them in your heart, and go your own way.
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.
The river that flows in you also flows in me.
I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.
When the flower opens, the bees will come.
If you want the truth, I'll tell you the truth. Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you.
The flute of the infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is love.
What is a holy person? The one who is aware of others' suffering.
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.
He is the real Guru Who can reveal the form of the formless before your eyes; who teaches the simple path, without rites or ceremonies; Who does not make you close your doors, and hold your breath, and renounce the world; Who makes you perceive the Supreme Spirit whenever the mind attaches itself; Who teaches you to be still in the midst of all your activities. Fearless, always immersed in bliss, he keeps the spirit of yoga in the midst of enjoyments.
As the river surrenders itself to the ocean, what is inside me moves inside you.
But if a mirror ever makes you sad you should know that it does not know you.
I went in search of a bad person; I found none as I, seeing myself, found me the worst.
When the bride is one with her lover, who cares about the wedding party?
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!
Wherever you are is the entry point.
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.
I do not quote from the scriptures; I simply see what I see.
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.
Do you believe there is some place that will make thesoul less thirsty? In that great absence you will find nothing.
My heart is so intoxicated with love that I have no wish to speak.
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!
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.
For millions of years you have slept. This morning, will you not wake?
The apple blossom exists to create fruit; when that comes, the petal falls.
Faith,Waiting in the heart of a seed, Promises a miracle of life which cannot prove at once.
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.
Listen to your own Self. If you listen to that Self within, then you find the Truth.
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.
I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days and God came to me.
If you don't break your ropes while you're alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?
Do not keep the slanderer away, treat him with affection and honor: Body and soul, he scours all clean, babbling about this and that.
Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet.
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.
God, provide me with enough sustenance that my family is taken care of, that neither I remain hungry, nor does my guest go unfed.
The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling
It is the spirit of the quest which helps
Only in the heart can one experience the divine presence of truth.
Why are we here? To become ourselves in 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.
I laugh when I hear the fish in the water is thirsty.
Now I have no caste, no creed, I am no more what I am!
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.
When you really look for me you will see me instantly.
Do what you do with another human being, but never put them out of your heart.
Wear a crown of flowers on your head, let its roots reach your heart
Love does not grow on trees or brought in the market, but if one wants to be "LOVED" one must first know how to give (unconditional) LOVE.
A diamond was laying in the street covered with dirt. Many fools passed by. Someone who knew diamonds picked it up.
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.
Listen, my friend. He who loves understands.
Sing such a song with all of your heart that you'll never have to sing again.
Listen to me brother! bring the vision of the Beloved in your heart
Do not go to the garden of flowers! O friend! go not there; In your body is the garden of flowers. Take your seat on the thousand petals of the lotus, and there gaze on the infinite beauty.
Reading books everyone died, none became any wise. One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.
If it were possible to meet the Beloved while laughing and in a state of comfort, why should one suffer the anguish of separation?
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!
Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
Stand firm in that which you are.
The external forces conceal from the eyes the deep meaning of existence; True faith resides in the heart.
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.
Plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is, Believe in the Great Sound!
Listen to me, my Friend! My beloved Lord is within.
Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert, when all around you there is nothing but water!
If you haven't experienced it, it's not true.
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.
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.
The sun is within me and so is the moon.
Forgiveness is a game only saints play Kabir.
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!
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.
The stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail.
My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.
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.
All darkness vanished, when I saw the Lamp within my heart.
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.
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.
If you make love with the divine now, in the next lifeyou will have the face of satisfied desire.
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.
Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.
The truth of love is the truth of the universe: it is the lamp of the soul that reveals the secrets of darkness
