Top 104 Quotes & Sayings by Kabir - Page 2

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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?

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.

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

Stand firm in that which you are.

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 me, my Friend! My beloved Lord is within.

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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!

When you really look for me you will see me instantly.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Forgiveness is a game only saints play Kabir.

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

It is the spirit of the quest which helps

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

The sun is within me and so is the moon.

Wherever you are is the entry point.

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.

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!

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

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.