Top 104 Quotes & Sayings by Kabir

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

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.

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.

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

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.

The river that flows in you also flows in me.

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.

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

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.

Why are we here? To become ourselves in you.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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!

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.

I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.

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

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

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.

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

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

Wherever you are, that's the entry point.

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.

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

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

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

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

The essence of life is in remembering God.

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

Listen, my friend. He who loves understands.

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

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

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.

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

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!

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.

What is a holy person? The one who is aware of others' suffering.

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

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.

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

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

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

When the flower opens, the bees will come.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

A learned man's knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn't have control over his tongue

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