Rabindranath Tagore Quotes on Self (6 Quotes)

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.

I have no faith in my works. I know time's ocean, its lashing of waves, day by day, will erase them. My faith is in my self.

The pious sectarian is proud because he is confident of his right of possession in God. The man of devotion is meek because he is conscious of Gods right of love over his life and soul. The object of our possession becomes smaller than ourselves, and without acknowledging it in so many words the bigoted sectarian has an implicit belief that God can be kept secured for certain individuals in a cage which is of their own make. In a similar manner the primitive races of men believe that their ceremonials have a magic influence upon their deities. Sectarianism is a perverse form of worldliness in the disguise of religion it breeds a narrowness of heart in a greater measure than the cult of the world based upon material interest can ever do. For undisguised pursuit of self has its safety in openness, like filth exposed to the sun and air. But the self-magnification with its consequent lessening of God that goes on unchecked under the cover of sectarianism loses its chance of salvation because it defiles the very source of purity.

The burden of self is lightened when I laugh at myself.

The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth which claims all its sacrifice, yet makes this sacrifice its own recompense. This is man's dharma, man's religion, and man's self is the vessel