Quotes from Kabir

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

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?

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.

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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!

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 essence of life is in remembering God.

Why are we here? To become ourselves in you.

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

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

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!

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

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.