The man who is kind and who practices righteousness, who remains passive against the affairs of the world, who considers all creatures on earth as his own self, he attains the Immortal Being; the true God is ever with him.

A diamond was laying in the street covered with dirt. Many fools passed by. Someone who knew diamonds picked it up.

Listen to me, my Friend! My beloved Lord is within.

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

There is nothing but water in the holy pools. I know, I have been swimming there. All the gods sculpted of wood or ivory can’t 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.

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

Men have always looked before and after, and rebelled against the existing order. But for their divine discontent, men would not have been men, and there would have been no progress in human affairs.