Quotes from Kabir

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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!

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

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

When at last you are come to the ocean of happiness, do not go back thirsty.

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

You have slept millions and millions of years. Why not wake up this morning?

Don't go outside your house to see the flowers. My friend, don't bother with that excursion. Inside your body there are flowers. One flower has a thousand petals. That will do for a place to sit. Sitting there you will have a glimpse of beauty inside the body and out of it, before gardens and after gardens.

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

Whether I be in the temple or in the balcony, in the camp or the flower garden, I tell you truly that every moment my Lord is taking His delight in me.

If you cannot understand something, then you have understood it incorrectly.

A sore pain troubles me day and night, and I cannot sleep; I long for the meeting with my Beloved, and my father's house gives me pleasure no more. The gates of the sky are opened, the temple is revealed: I meet my husband, and leave at His feet the offering of my body and my mind.

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.