Kabir

“Kabir says, 'Listen to me, dear Sadhu! the true path is rarely found.'”

“There is nothing but water at the holy bathing places; and I know that they are useless, for I have bathed in them.”

“The images are all lifeless, they cannot speak; I know, for I have cried aloud to them.”

“The Purana and the Koran are mere words; lifting up the curtain, I have seen.”

“Kabir gives utterance to the words of experience; and he knows very well that all other things are untrue.”

“All things are made by Him, and we are gone astray when we trust to ourselves.”

“Lift up the curtain, and see the answer.”

“My body and my mind are grieved for the want of Thee; O my Beloved! come to my house.”

“When people call me Thy lover, my head is bowed down for shame.”

“He whom I have sought I have found; in His presence is the place of my abiding.”

“O friend, hope for Him whilst you live; understand whilst you live; for in life deliverance abides.”

“If your bonds be not broken whilst living, what hope of deliverance in death?”

“It is but an empty dream, that the soul shall have union with Him because it has passed from the body.”

“If He is found now, He is found then; if not, we do but go to dwell in the City of Death.”

“If you have union now, you shall have it hereafter.”

“Bathe in the truth, know the true Guru, have faith in the true Name!”

“Kabir says: 'It is the Spirit of the quest which helps; I am the slave of this Spirit of the quest.'”

“There is a strange tree, which stands without roots and bears fruits without blossoming.”

“I sing the glory of forms.”