"Open your eyes of love, and see Him who pervades this world! consider it well, and know that this is your own country."
Open Your Eyes of Love
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Kabir
Do not go to the garden of flowers
"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."
I Lost Myself
"I went looking for Him And lost myself; The drop merged with the Sea Who can find it now? Looking and looking for Him I lost myself; The Sea merged with the drop Who can find it now?"
You are thirsty and dying in a desert
"Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert, when all around you there is nothing but water!"
My swan, let us fly to that land
"My swan, let us fly to that land Where your Beloved lives forever. That land is always soaked in moonlight; Darkness can never come near it. It is flooded always with the dazzle Of not one, but a million suns."
Do not take Life
"Do not take life, the same life force pervades all. The sin of such actions will not leave you, even if you were to listen to millions of scriptures. Again: Just as you know pain within your self, realize other living beings feel pain the same way."
Hang up the swing of Love today!
"Hang the body and the mind between the arms of the Beloved, in the ecstasy of love's joy: Bring the tearful streams of the rainy clouds to your eyes, and cover your heart with the shadow of darkness: Bring your face nearer to His ear, and speak of the deepest...
When you meet the true Guru
"Open your eyes of love, and see Him who pervades this world! Consider it well, and know that this is your own country. When you meet the true Guru, He will awaken your heart; He will tell you the secret of love and detachment, and then you will know indeed that He...
Let Your Arrogance Go
"The guest is inside you, and also inside me; you know the sprout is hidden inside the seed. We are all struggling; none of us has gone far. Let your arrogance go, and look around inside. The blue sky opens out farther and farther, the daily sense of failure goes...
A diamond was laying in the street
"A diamond was laying in the street covered with dirt. Many fools passed by. Someone who knew diamonds picked it up."