Kabir Quotes

The river that flows in you also flows in me.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Wherever you are is the entry point.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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