Saint Kabir Quotes If there be lust, how can love be there? Where there is love, there is no lust.   It is the mercy of my true Guru that has made me to know the unknown.   Your Lord is near: yet you are climbing the palm-tree to seek Him.   Where is the night, when the sun is shining? If it is night, then the sun withdraws its light. Where knowledge is, can ignorance endure?   Serve your God, who has come into this temple of life! Do not act the part of a madman, for the night is thickening fast.   The man who is kind and who practises righteousness, who remains passive amidst 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.   You are alone, you have no companion: you will suffer the consequences of your own deeds.   You are weaving your bondage of falsehood, your words are full of deception: With the load of desires which you hold on your head, how can you be light?   The flute of the Infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is love: When love renounces all limits, it reaches truth. How widely the fragrance spreads! It has no end, nothing stands in its way.   O my heart! the Supreme Spirit, the great Master, is near you: wake, oh wake! Run to the feet of your Beloved: for your Lord stands near to your head. You have slept for unnumbered ages; this morning will you not wake?   Subtle is the path of love! Therein there is no asking and no not-asking, There one loses one’s self at His feet, There one is immersed in the joy of the seeking: plunged in the deeps of love as the fish in the water. The lover is never slow in offering his head for his Lord’s service.