Kabir Quotes

Kabîr says, "O Sadhu! God is the breath of all breath."

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.

"Friend, hope for the Guest while you are alive.
Jump into experience while you are alive!
Think . . . and think . . . while you are alive.
What you call "salvation" belongs to the time before death . . . .
Kabir says this: When the Guest is being searched for, it is the intensity of the longing for the guest that does all the work . . ."

Oh beloved, seeking and searching the seeker is lost. And the ocean has fallen into the dewdrop; now it is impossible to find it.

The world is dying, but knows none how to Die:
But, whosoever knows how to Die, dies not again.

I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days…

"What a wonderful lotus it is, that blooms at the heart of the spinning wheel of the universe! Only a few pure souls know of its true delight.Music is all around it, and there the heart partakes of the joy of the Infinite Sea.Kabir says: "Dive thou into that Ocean of sweetness: thus let all errors of life and of death flee away.

प्रेम गली अति संकरी, तामें दाऊ न समाई |
जब में था तब हरी नहीं, अब हरी है में नाहीं ||

The street of love is very narrow, two can’t pass through it at the same time

When I was, there was no God (Hari), now there is God but I am not.

The Kazi is searching the words of the Koran, and instructing others:
but if his heart be not steeped in that love, what does it avail, though he be a teacher of men?

Why run around offering water?
There's a sea in every house.
If anyone is thirsty,
by hook or crook, he'll drink.

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.

The devout seeker is he who mingles in his heart the double currents of love and detachment,
like the mingling of the streams of Ganges and Jumna.

I have come to save the devotees. I was sent here because the world was seen in misery.

Ali na obrežju reke sedijo tatovi ali svetniki?
Takoj boš ugotovil, da le spregovorijo...
To, kakšen je človek globoko znotraj,
pove cesta njegovih besed.

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