Categories: Pyramid Poetry

Don’t Go Outside Your House to See Flowers

By: Kabir

15th Century

Kabir, 15th Century

Don’t go outside your house to see flowers. My friend, don’t bother with that excursion.
Inside your body there are flowers. One flower has a thousand petals.
That will do for a place to sit. Sitting there you will have a glimpse of beauty
inside the body and out of it, before gardens and after gardens.

– Kabir, 15th Century

Originally appeared in: March 1997