Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Seeking Why run around sprinkling holy water? There's an ocean inside you, and when you're ready you'll drink.
Kabir
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Kabir
Age: 78 †
Born: 1440
Born: January 1
Died: 1518
Died: January 1
Philosopher
Poet
Weaver
Writer
Benares
Kabir Sahib
Drink
Holy
Inside
Ready
Water
Inspirational
Sprinkling
Running
Seeking
Around
Ocean
More quotes by Kabir
The apple blossom exists to create fruit when that comes, the petal falls.
Kabir
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.
Kabir
Listen to your own Self. If you listen to that Self within, then you find the Truth.
Kabir
Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
Kabir
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?
Kabir
Wherever you are is the entry point.
Kabir
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.
Kabir
Do not keep the slanderer away, treat him with affection and honor: Body and soul, he scours all clean, babbling about this and that.
Kabir
Do you believe there is some place that will make thesoul less thirsty? In that great absence you will find nothing.
Kabir
Do what you do with another human being, but never put them out of your heart.
Kabir
Do not praise yourself not slander others: There are still many days to go and any thing could happen.
Kabir
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.
Kabir
The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling
Kabir
It is the spirit of the quest which helps
Kabir
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.
Kabir
I went in search of a bad person I found none as I, seeing myself, found me the worst.
Kabir
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.
Kabir
Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert, when all around you there is nothing but water!
Kabir
Now I have no caste, no creed, I am no more what I am!
Kabir
Wear a crown of flowers on your head, let its roots reach your heart
Kabir