Kabir
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.Collection: Dancing
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.Collection: Silly
Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.Collection: Firm
The external forces conceal from the eyes the deep meaning of existence; True faith resides in the heart.Collection: Faith
Wherever you are is the entry point.Collection: Wise
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.Collection: Life
When you really look for me you will see me instantly.Collection: Looks
no ford!"Collection: No Thing
As the river surrenders itself to the ocean, what is inside me moves inside you.Collection: Ocean
Do what you do with another human being, but never put them out of your heart.Collection: Heart
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!Collection: Light
I laugh when I hear the fish in the water is thirsty.Collection: Water
Forgiveness is a game only saints play Kabir.Collection: Forgiveness
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?Collection: Gun
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!Collection: Powerful
When the bride is one with her lover, who cares about the wedding party?Collection: Party
Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.Collection: Hammers
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.Collection: Play
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.Collection: Hands
Stand firm in that which you are.Collection: Firm
The stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail.Collection: Giving
Are you looking for the Holy One? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours.Collection: Spiritual
If you make love with the divine now, in the next lifeyou will have the face of satisfied desire.Collection: Making Love
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.Collection: Book
My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.Collection: Sky
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.Collection: Cities
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.Collection: Reality
God, provide me with enough sustenance that my family is taken care of, that neither I remain hungry, nor does my guest go unfed.Collection: Taken
Plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is, Believe in the Great Sound!Collection: Teacher
The sun is within me and so is the moon.Collection: Moon
Listen to me, my Friend! My beloved Lord is within.Collection: Beloved
If it were possible to meet the Beloved while laughing and in a state of comfort, why should one suffer the anguish of separation?Collection: Love
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.Collection: Men
Sing such a song with all of your heart that you'll never have to sing again.Collection: Song
Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet.Collection: Strong
It is the spirit of the quest which helpsCollection: Quests
Though One Brahman is the Cause of the Many. ... Behold but One in all things it is the second that leads you astray.Collection: Causes
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!Collection: Distance