Kabir famous quotes

The river that flows in you also flows in me.
-- Kabir

#Rivers #Flow

All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
-- Kabir

#Inspirational #Ocean

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

#Heart #Veils

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.
-- Kabir

#Doe #Looks #Guests

If you want the truth, I'll tell you the truth. Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you.
-- Kabir

#Truth #Real #Secret

Wherever you are is the entry point.
-- Kabir

#Vision

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.
-- Kabir

#Wise #Dream #World

When the bride is one with her lover, who cares about the wedding party?
-- Kabir

#Party #Who Cares #Lovers

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

#Dirt #Fool #Diamond

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.
-- Kabir

#Real #Secret #Sound

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.
-- Kabir

#Book #Swimming #Ivory

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

#Sound #Flutes #Infinite

As the river surrenders itself to the ocean, what is inside me moves inside you.
-- Kabir

#Ocean #Moving #Rivers

It is the spirit of the quest which helps
-- Kabir

#Quests #Spirit #Helping

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

#Mirrors #Doe #Should

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

#Water #Dying #Desert

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

#Students

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!
-- Kabir

#Powerful #Confused #Cities

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

#Teacher #Believe #Sound

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..
-- Kabir

#Pride #Life Is #Lord

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

#Soul #Honor #Body

I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days and God came to me.
-- Kabir

#Three #Needs #Sat

The essence of life is in remembering God.
-- Kabir

#Essence #Essence Of Life #Remember

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.
-- Kabir

#Spiritual #Vegetables #House

Why are we here? To become ourselves in you.
-- Kabir

#Spirituality

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

#Firm #Stand Firm #Imaginary

Forgiveness is a game only saints play Kabir.
-- Kabir

#Forgiveness #Games #Play

For millions of years you have slept. This morning, will you not wake?
-- Kabir

#Morning #Years

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.
-- Kabir

#Mean #Meditation #Leaving

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

#Making Love #Desire #Next

Listen to your own Self. If you listen to that Self within, then you find the Truth.
-- Kabir

#Self #Intuition

Wherever you are, that's the entry point.
-- Kabir

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.
-- Kabir

#Flower #Garden #Lotuses

Do what you do with another human being, but never put them out of your heart.
-- Kabir

#Heart #Humans

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.
-- Kabir

#Mind #Body #Quiet

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..
-- Kabir

#Unconditional Love #Giving #Tree

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.
-- Kabir

#Cities #Ends #Found

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

#Brother #Heart #Vision

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

#Sky #Lightning #Gleam

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

#Creeds #Castes

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

#Purpose #Labor

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

#Taken #Doe #Care

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

#Causes #Ethics #Morality

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

#White #Waste #Soap

All darkness vanished, when I saw the Lamp within my heart.
-- Kabir

#Heart #Darkness #Lamps

The sun is within me and so is the moon.
-- Kabir

#Moon #Sun

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.
-- Kabir

#Hands #House #Torches

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.
-- Kabir

#Intelligent #Thinking #Soul

When the flower opens, the bees will come.
-- Kabir

#Flower #Bees

I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.
-- Kabir

#Mirrors #Cities #Blind

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

#Love #Laughing #Suffering

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

#Strong #Healing #Feet

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.
-- Kabir

#God #People #Water

Stand firm in that which you are.
-- Kabir

#Firm #Stand Firm

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

#Believe #Absence #Thirsty

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

#Heart #Waiting #Miracle

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

#Thinking #Rope #Alive

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.
-- Kabir

#Fall #Eye #Night

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.
-- Kabir

#Life #Strong #Thinking

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

#Love #Heart #Wish

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.
-- Kabir

#Dancing #Joy #Sorrow

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.
-- Kabir

#Play #Soul #Body

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.
-- Kabir

#Silly #Healing #Names

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

#Inspirational #Running #Ocean

I went in search of a bad person; I found none as I, seeing myself, found me the worst.
-- Kabir

#Honesty #Integrity #Character

Reading books everyone died, none became any wise. One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.
-- Kabir

#Wise #Book #Reading

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.
-- Kabir

#Teacher #Zero #Long

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

#Hammers #Bears #Admire

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

#Beloved #Lord #Listen To Me

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

#Water #Laughing #Vision

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

#Inspirational #Alive #Guests

If I make the seven oceans ink, if I make the trees my pen, if I make the earth my paper, the glory of God cannot be written.
-- Kabir

#Ocean #Tree #Ink

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

#Next #Spirituality #Holy

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

#Giving #Stones #Worship

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!
-- Kabir

#Sky #Rivers #Rope

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

#Fall #Apples #Fruit

I do not quote from the scriptures; I simply see what I see.
-- Kabir

#Scripture

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!
-- Kabir

#Moon #Hands #Body

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

#Heart #Vegetables #Ties

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

#Zest #Honey #Fool

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.
-- Kabir

#Men #Order #Progress

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

#Faith #Heart #Eye

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.
-- Kabir

#Men #Self #Practice

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

#Flower #Heart #Roots

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.
-- Kabir

#Mother #Dark #Animal

The truth of love is the truth of the universe: it is the lamp of the soul that reveals the secrets of darkness
-- Kabir

#Love Is #Soul #Darkness

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.
-- Kabir

#Tree #Arrogance #Gone

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

#Song #Heart

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

#Heart #Divine

The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling
-- Kabir

#Water #Needs #Serious