' Are you looking for Me ? '...

"Are you looking for Me?
I am in the next seat;
My shoulder is against yours.
You will not find me in stupas, not in Indian shrines,

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 find 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
in Douglas Block
I Am With You Always: A Treasury of Inspirational Quotations, Poems & Prayers
NY: Bantam, 1992, p. 57