Kabir Quotes (28 Quotes)

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

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.

Be strong then, and enter into your own bodythere you have a sold place for your feet.Think about it carefullyDon't go off somewhere else

Hang up the swing of love todayHang the body and the mind between the arms of the beloved, in the ecstasy of love's joy.

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.

The ida that the soul will join with the ecstatic just because the body is rotten --that is all fantasy.

Man, here is your worth,Your meat is of no use Your bones cannot be soldFor making ornaments,And your skin cannot be playedOn an instrument

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

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

There is nothing but water in the holy pools. I know, I have been swimming there. All the gods sculpted of wood or ivory cant 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.

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

Behold but One in all things it is the second that leads you astray.

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.

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

When the Guest is being searched for,it is the intensity of the longing for the Guest thatdoes all the work.Look at me, and you will see a slave of that intensity.

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

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

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

The musk is inside the deer, but the deer does notlook for it,it wander around looking for grass.

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

I said to my longing heart, What is this river you want to cross; There are no travelers before you, there is no road. Do you see anyone moving or resting on that bank.

When affection for the I-creature and what it owns is dead, then the work of the Teacher is over.

When the bride is onewith her lover,who cares aboutthe wedding party

The purpose of labor is to learnwhen you know it, the labor is over.

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

This union with the guru, O Kabir,Sets me free like salt mingledWith flour, I am no more I

There's a moon in my body, but I can't see itA moon and a sun.A drum never touched by hands, beating, and I can't hear it

The savior 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.