Even if she could have got so far without a quarrel, still there would have been a great hue and cry about the marriage itself. First, it never happened. Secondly, how could there be a marriage between a princess of the Warrior Caste and a boy of the priestly Brahman Caste? Her readers would have imagined at once that the writer was preaching against our social customs in an underhand way. And they would write letters to the papers.
Rabindranath Tagore
Class, Marriage, Societal Norms, Critique, Narrative
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“The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, ignore natural gifts and say that children must learn through the same process that they learned by. We insist upon forced mental feeding and our lessons.” Rabindranath Tagore
Learning, Children, Adults, Forced Education, Natural Gifts
Rabindranath Tagore Learning, Children, Adults, Forced Education, Natural Gifts“Want of love is a degree of callousness; for love is the perfection of consciousness. We do not love because we do not comprehend, or rather we do not comprehend because we do not love. For love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us. It is not a mere sentiment; it is truth; it is the joy that is at the root of all creation.” Rabindranath Tagore
Love, Consciousness, Meaning, Emotional Depth, Universal Truth
Rabindranath Tagore Love, Consciousness, Meaning, Emotional Depth, Universal Truth“I’m lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with the earth’s last love. I will take life’s final offering, I will take the last human blessing.” Rabindranath Tagore
Celebration, Connection, Love, Community, Longing
Rabindranath Tagore Celebration, Connection, Love, Community, Longing“I sit at my window this morning where the world like a passer-by stops for a moment, nods to me and goes.” Rabindranath Tagore
Observation, Presence, Connection, Nature, Introspection
Rabindranath Tagore Observation, Presence, Connection, Nature, Introspection“The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth.” Rabindranath Tagore
Nature, Yearning, Connection, Metaphor, Emotion
Rabindranath Tagore Nature, Yearning, Connection, Metaphor, Emotion“What is Art? It is the response of man’s creative soul to the call of the Real.” Rabindranath Tagore
Art, Creativity, Expression, Response To Reality, Human Experience
Rabindranath Tagore Art, Creativity, Expression, Response To Reality, Human Experience“It is the docile who achieve the most impossible things in this world.” Rabindranath Tagore
Submission, Achievement, Perseverance, Human Nature, Irony
Rabindranath Tagore Submission, Achievement, Perseverance, Human Nature, Irony“Misery knocks at thy door, and her message is that thy lord is wakeful, and he calls thee to the love-tryst through the darkness of night. The sky is overcast with clouds and the rain is ceaseless. I know not what this is that stirs in me, – I know not its meaning. A moment’s flash of lightning drags down a deeper gloom on my sight, and my heart gropes for the path to where the music of the night calls me. Light, oh, where is the light?” Rabindranath Tagore
Misery, Darkness, Spiritual Call, Emotional Turmoil, Seeking Light
Rabindranath Tagore Misery, Darkness, Spiritual Call, Emotional Turmoil, Seeking Light“The time that my journey takes is long and the way of it long. I came out on the chariot of the first gleam of light, and pursued my voyage through the wildernesses of worlds leaving my track on many a star and planet. It is the most distant course that comes nearest to thyself, and that training is the most intricate which leads to the utter simplicity of a tune.” Rabindranath Tagore
Journey, Time, Discovery, Simplicity In Complexity, Cosmic Metaphor
Rabindranath Tagore Journey, Time, Discovery, Simplicity In Complexity, Cosmic Metaphor“Death belongs to life as birth does The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down.” Rabindranath Tagore
Death, Life, Journey, Cyclical Nature, Existential Reflection
Rabindranath Tagore Death, Life, Journey, Cyclical Nature, Existential Reflection“This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.” Rabindranath Tagore
Music, Creativity, Nature, Poetry, Inspiration
Rabindranath Tagore Music, Creativity, Nature, Poetry, Inspiration“Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.” Rabindranath Tagore
Love, Reality, Spirituality, Creation, Essence
Rabindranath Tagore Love, Reality, Spirituality, Creation, Essence“The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.” Rabindranath Tagore
Flower, Individuality, Envy, Self-acceptance, Uniqueness In Nature
Rabindranath Tagore Flower, Individuality, Envy, Self-acceptance, Uniqueness In Nature“Clothed in facts truth feels oppressed. In the garb of poetry it moves easy and free.” Rabindranath Tagore
Truth, Poetry, Oppression, Creative Expression, Freedom Of Thought
Rabindranath Tagore Truth, Poetry, Oppression, Creative Expression, Freedom Of Thought“If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door—or I’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.” Rabindranath Tagore
Resilience, Determination, Creativity, Optimism, Problem-solving
Rabindranath Tagore Resilience, Determination, Creativity, Optimism, Problem-solving“Perhaps the scenes of travel conjure themselves up before me and pass and repass in my imagination all the more vividly, because I lead such a vegetable existence that a call to travel would fall upon me like a thunder-bolt.” Rabindranath Tagore
Travel, Imagination, Existence, Longing, Awakening
Rabindranath Tagore Travel, Imagination, Existence, Longing, Awakening“We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers.” Rabindranath Tagore
Education, Passivity, Learning, Stagnation, Critical Awareness
Rabindranath Tagore Education, Passivity, Learning, Stagnation, Critical Awareness“The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual.” Rabindranath Tagore
Journey, Spirituality, Love, Transformation, Human Nature
Rabindranath Tagore Journey, Spirituality, Love, Transformation, Human Nature“At the very name of another country, my heart would go out to it, and at the sight of a foreigner in the streets, I would fall to weaving a network of dreams – the mountains, the glens, and the forests of his distant home, with his cottage in its setting, and the free and independent life of far-away wilds.” Rabindranath Tagore
Empathy, Travel, Imagination, Cultural Appreciation, Connection
Rabindranath Tagore Empathy, Travel, Imagination, Cultural Appreciation, Connection