Variant translation: Kabir says: Student, tell me, what is God?
He is the breath inside the breath
As translated by Stephen Mitchell in The Enlightened Heart (1993)
Songs of Kabîr (1915)
“How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath
To say to me that thou art out of breath?”
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“All this breathing in
Never breathing out.”
"Fair", Whatever and Ever Amen (1997).
Song lyrics, With Ben Folds Five
Memoirs of Childhood and Youth (1924)
Context: One thing that specially saddened me was that the unfortunate animals had to suffer so much pain and misery. The sight of an old limping horse, tugged forward by one man while another kept beating it with a stick to get it to the knacker's yard at Colmar, haunted me for weeks. It was quite incomprehensible to me — this was before I began going to school — why in my evening prayers I should pray for human beings only. It was quite incomprehensible to me — this was before I began going to school — why in my evening prayers I should pray for human beings only. So when my mother had prayed with me and had kissed me good-night, I used to add silently a prayer that I had composed myself for all living creatures. It ran thus: "O, heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath; guard them from all evil, and let them sleep in peace."
“Praise be to you, O hills, that you can breathe
Into our souls the secret of your power!”
"Comrades", p. 49.
Along the Trail (1898)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 66.
Song lyrics, Never for Ever (1980)
