Kabir quotes:

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

As the river enters into the ocean,so my heart touches Thee.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Between the poles of the conscious and the unconscious, there has the mind made a swing:Thereon hang all beings and all worlds, and that swing never ceases its sway. (pg. 16)

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.

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

The essence of life is in remembering God.

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.

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

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

I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.

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

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.

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

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.

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?

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

It is the spirit of the quest which helps

What is seen is not the TruthWhat is cannot be saidTrust comes not without seeingNor understanding without wordsThe wise comprehends with knowledgeTo the ignorant it is but a wonderSome worship the formless GodSome worship his various formsIn what way He is beyond these attributesOnly the Knower knowsThat music cannot be writtenHow can then be the notesSay Kabir, awareness alone will overcome illusion."

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Forgiveness is a game only saints play Kabir.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 brother! bring the vision of the Beloved in your heart

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

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

Listen, my friend. He who loves understands.

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..

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

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

Stand firm in that which you are.

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

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 fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling

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

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

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..

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.

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

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

The sun is within me and so is the moon.

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

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?

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!

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!

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

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

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.

When the flower opens, the bees will come.

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

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

Wherever you are is the entry point.

Wherever you are, that's the entry point.

Why are we here? To become ourselves in you.

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 river that flows in you also flows in me.

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.

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!