Kabir Quotes

Suppose you scrub your ethical skin until it shines, but inside there is no music, then what? Mohammed's son pores over words, and points out this and that, but if his chest is not soaked dark with love, then what? The Yogi comes along in his famous orange, but if inside he is colorless, then what?

the sun is within me and so is the moon

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

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

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

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

You kill life and call it an act of religion. Then what is irreligion?

Neden çıkarsın minareye? Tanrı sağır mı ki?
Medet umduğunu gönlünde arasana,
Gerçeği evinde (kendinde) aramazsın da,
Ormandan ormana gezer durursun.
Hakikat sendedir. Sende!
Nereye gidersen git, ruhunu bulamadıktan sonra,
Senin için dünyanın bir gerçekliği olamaz elbette.

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..

Hindus and Moslems alike have achieved that End, where remains no mark of distinction.

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.

Srce pravi...
Kdaj se bova dvignila?
Razum pravi...
Kdaj bova šla?
Pol leta utrujaš svoje možgane,
cilj pa je samo kilometer proč.

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

So long as man clamours for the I and Mine, his works are as naught: When all love of the I and the Mine is dead, then the work of the Lord is done.

"Look upon life and death; there is no separation between them,
The right hand and the left hand are one and the same.
Kabîr says: "There the wise man is speechless; for this truth may
never be found in Vedas or in books.