Posts Tagged "Kabir"

Let’s Swing

Between the conscious and the unconscious, the mind has put up a swing: all earth creatures, even the supernovas , sway between these two trees, and it never winds down angels, animals,humans, insects, by the million also the wheeling sun and moon: ages go by and it goes on. Everything is swinging: heaven, earth,water,fire, and the secret one slowly growing a body. Kabir saw that for fifteen...

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The Time Before Death

Friend, hope for the Guest while you are alive. Jump into experience while you are alive! Think… and think… while you are alive. What you call “salvation” belongs to the time before death. If you don’t break your ropes while you’re alive, do you think ghosts will do it after? The idea that the soul will rejoin with the ecstatic just because the body is...

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Some Gems

Hiding in this cage of visible matter Is the invisible Life Bird Pay attention to her She is singing Your song —Kabir I am not a Christian, not Jew, not Hindu, not Buddhist.  I belong to the beloved, have seen the two worlds as one, and that one called two and know, first, last, outer, inner, only that breath breathing, human being. —Rumi It makes no difference if you are being...

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Inside This Clay Jug….

Inside This Clay Jug….

Inside this clay jug there are canyons and pine mountains, and the maker of canyons and pine mountains! All seven oceans are inside, and hundreds and millions of stars. The acid that tests gold is there, and the one who judges jewels. And the music from the strings no one touches, and the source of all water. If you want the truth, I will tell you the truth: Friend, listen, the Holy One who I...

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