Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure.
Rabindranath Tagore
Dedication, Spirituality, Peace, Introspection, Presence
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“Therefore the whole apparatus of piety, Hindu and Moslem alike – the temple and mosque, idol and holy water, scriptures and priests – were denounced by this inconveniently clear-sighted poet as mere substitutes for reality; dead things intervening between the soul and its love –.” Rabindranath Tagore
Religion, Spirituality, Reality, Love, Critique Of Institutions
Rabindranath Tagore Religion, Spirituality, Reality, Love, Critique Of Institutions“Though its colour be not deep and its smell be faint, use this flower in thy service and pluck it while there is time.” Rabindranath Tagore
Opportunity, Service, Impermanence, Appreciation, Present Moment
Rabindranath Tagore Opportunity, Service, Impermanence, Appreciation, Present Moment“When we were young, we understood all sweet things; and we could detect the sweets of a fairy story by an unerring science of our own. We never cared for such useless things as knowledge. We only cared for truth.” Rabindranath Tagore
Innocence, Youth, Truth, Imagination, Nostalgia
Rabindranath Tagore Innocence, Youth, Truth, Imagination, Nostalgia“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“The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.” Rabindranath Tagore
Life, Interconnectedness, Nature, Rhythm Of Existence, Joy Of Life
Rabindranath Tagore Life, Interconnectedness, Nature, Rhythm Of Existence, Joy Of Life“Today I feel that I shall win through. I have come to the gateway of the simple; I am now content to see things as they are. I have gained freedom myself; I shall allow freedom to others. In my work will be my salvation.” Rabindranath Tagore
Hope, Simplicity, Freedom, Self-acceptance, Personal Growth
Rabindranath Tagore Hope, Simplicity, Freedom, Self-acceptance, Personal Growth“His love for me seemed to overflow my limits by its flood of wealth and service. But my necessity was more for giving than foe receiving; for love is a vagabond, who can make his flowers bloom in the wayside dust, better than in the crystal jars kept in the drawing-room.” Rabindranath Tagore
Love, Giving, Service, Simplicity, True Wealth
Rabindranath Tagore Love, Giving, Service, Simplicity, True Wealth“The deepest source of all calamities in history is misunderstanding. For where we do not understand, we can never be just.” Rabindranath Tagore
Misunderstanding, Calamity, History, Justice, Human Condition
Rabindranath Tagore Misunderstanding, Calamity, History, Justice, Human Condition“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“To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.” Rabindranath Tagore
Truth, Speech, Patience, Integrity, Communication
Rabindranath Tagore Truth, Speech, Patience, Integrity, Communication“Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.” Rabindranath Tagore
Abundance, Acceptance, Growth, Awareness, Freedom
Rabindranath Tagore Abundance, Acceptance, Growth, Awareness, Freedom“The highest mission of education is to help us to realise the inner principle of the unity of all knowledge and all the activities of our social and spiritual being.” Rabindranath Tagore
Education, Unity, Knowledge, Social Being, Spiritual Growth
Rabindranath Tagore Education, Unity, Knowledge, Social Being, Spiritual Growth“The birth and death of leaves is part of that greater cycle that moves among the stars.” Rabindranath Tagore
Cycle, Leaves, Birth, Cosmic Connection, Life And Death
Rabindranath Tagore Cycle, Leaves, Birth, Cosmic Connection, Life And Death“The biggest changes in a woman’s nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition.” Rabindranath Tagore
Gender, Love, Ambition, Change, Human Nature
Rabindranath Tagore Gender, Love, Ambition, Change, Human Nature“Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its adventure of expression in the varied forms of self-realization.” Rabindranath Tagore
Creativity, Life, Expression, Potential, Self-realization
Rabindranath Tagore Creativity, Life, Expression, Potential, Self-realization“Other animals ran only when they had a reason, but the horse would run for no reason whatever, as if to run out of his own skin.” Rabindranath Tagore
Freedom, Instinct, Horse, Running, Unreasoned Joy
Rabindranath Tagore Freedom, Instinct, Horse, Running, Unreasoned Joy“When at even-tide the child of want lies down, dirty and hungry, in his squalid home, and hears of prince and princess and fabled gold, then in the dark hovel lighted by its dim flickering candle, his mind springs free from its bonds of poverty and misery and walks in fresh beauty and glowing raiment, strong beyond all fear of hindrance, through that fairy realm where all is possible.” Rabindranath Tagore
Poverty, Dreams, Imagination, Childhood, Resilience
Rabindranath Tagore Poverty, Dreams, Imagination, Childhood, Resilience“The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.” Rabindranath Tagore
Humanity, Silence, Nature, Inner Voice, Complexity Of Being
Rabindranath Tagore Humanity, Silence, Nature, Inner Voice, Complexity Of Being