Kabir — "Those who chase shadows overlook the sun shining in their pocket."

"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."

"The pearl is found in the shell, and the shell is in the sea. But the pearl is not the shell, nor the sea."

"The bird sings because it has a song."

"He who carries little walks freely under the burdened sky."

"Pothi padh padh kar jag mua, Pandit bhayo na koye. Dhai aakhar prem ke, jo padhe so Pandit hoye. (Reading books, the world died, but none became learned. He who reads but two and a half letters of lov…"