I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. (Rabindranath Tagore)
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)
Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. (Rabindranath Tagore)
Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love. (Rabindranath Tagore)
The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. (Rabindranath Tagore)
Religion, like poetry, is not a mere idea, it is expression. The self-expression of God is in the endless variety of creation and our attitude toward the Infinite Being must also in its expression have a variety of individuality ceaseless and unendi. (Rabindranath Tagore)
Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims (Rabindranath Tagore)
The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which once realized makes all movements full of meaning and joy. But if we detach its movements from that ultimate idea, if we do not see the infinite rest and only see the infi (Rabindranath Tagore)
Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but (Rabindranath Tagore)
The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music... The trees, the stars, and the blue hills ache with a meaning which can never be uttered in words. (Rabindranath Tagore)
A dewdrop is a perfect integrity that has no filial memory of its parentage. (Rabindranath Tagore)
The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realization of yoga, of union. (Rabindranath Tagore)
If I say that He is within me, the universe is ashamed if I say that He is without me, it is falsehood. (Rabindranath Tagore)
Faith is like a bird that feels dawn breaking and sings while it is still dark. (Rabindranath Tagore)
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