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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Forgiveness is a game only saints play Kabir.

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

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?

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 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.

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

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 sell mirrors in the city of the blind.

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.

It is the spirit of the quest which helps

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.

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

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

Listen to me brother! bring the vision of the Beloved in your heart

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

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

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.

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

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!

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!