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“The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.”
― Frank A. Clark

“We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't.”
― Frank A. Clark

“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.”
― Frank A. Clark

“Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.”
― Frank A. Clark

“Everyone is trying to accomplish something big not realizing life is made of little things.”
― Frank Clark

“Every adult needs a child to teach; it’s the way adults learn.”
― Frank A. Clark

“...But if a mirror ever makes
you sad

you should know
that it does
not know
you.”
― Kabir

“Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain.”
― Kabir, The Bijak of Kabir

“Are you looking for me?
I am in the next seat.
My shoulder is against yours.
you will not find me in the stupas,
not in Indian shrine rooms,
nor in synagogues,
nor in cathedrals:
not in masses,
nor kirtans,
not in legs winding around your own neck,
nor in eating nothing but vegetables.
When you really look for me,
you will see me instantly —
you will find me in the tiniest house of time.
Kabir says: Student, tell me, what is God?
He is the breath inside the breath.”
― Kabir

“All know that the drop merges into the ocean, but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.”
― Kabir

“If you want the truth,
I’ll tell you the truth:
Listen to the secret sound,
the real sound,
which is inside you.”
― Kabir

“The river that flows in you also flows in me.”
― Kabir

“... What is God?
He is the breath inside the breath.”
― Kabir

“Wherever you are is the entry point”
― Kabir

“the sun is within me and so is the moon”
― Kabir

“Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you. The one no one talks of speaks the secret sound to himself, and he is the one who has made it all.”
― Kabir

“I don't think there is such a thing as
an intelligent mega-rich
person.

For who with a fine mind can look
out upon this world and
hoard

what can nourish
a thousand
souls.”
― Kabir

“The Lord is in me, the Lord is in you,as life is in every seed, put false pride away and seek the Lord within..”
― Kabir

“Slowly slowly O mind...
Everything in own pace happens,
Gardner may water a hundred buckets...
Fruit arrives only in its season.”
― Kabir

“Listen, my friend. He who loves understands.”
― Kabir

“The moon shines in my body, but my blind eyes cannot see it:
The moon is within me, and so is the sun.
The unstruck drum of Eternity is sounded within me; but my deaf ears cannot hear it.
So long as man clamors for the I and the Mine, his works are as naught:
When all love of the I and the Mine is dead, then the work of the Lord is done.
For work has no other aim than the getting of knowledge:
When that comes, then work is put away.
The flower blooms for the fruit: when the fruit comes, the flower withers.
The musk is in the deer, but is seeks it not within itself: it wanders in quest of grass.”
― Kabir

“The river and its waves are one surf: where is the difference between the river and its waves?
When the wave rises, it is the water; and when it falls, it is the same water again. Tell me, Sir, where is the distinction?
Because it has been named as wave, shall it no longer be considered as water?

Within the Supreme Brahma, the worlds are being told like beads:
Look upon that rosary with the eyes of wisdom.”
― Kabir, One Hundred Poems of Kabir

“So long as man clamours for the I and Mine, his works are as naught: When all love of the I and the Mine is dead, then the work of the Lord is done.”
― Kabir

“The home is the abiding place; in the home is reality; the home helps to attain Him Who is real. So stay where you are, and all things shall come to you in time.”
― Kabir, Songs of Kabir

“just throw away all thoughts of
imaginary things,
and stand firm in that which you are.”
― Kabir

“Between the poles of the conscious and the unconscious, there has the mind made a swing:
Thereon hang all beings and all worlds, and that swing never ceases its sway. (pg. 16)”
― Kabir, One Hundred Poems of Kabir

“Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires.”
― Lao Tzu