Rabindranath Tagore quotes - page 8

Man is not entirely an animal. He aspires to a spiritual vision, which is the vision of the whole truth. This gives him the highest delight, because it reveals to him the deepest harmony that exists between him and his surroundings. (Rabindranath Tagore)
For thou dwellest in me and I in thee. Thou without me or I without thee are nothing. View quote
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Our passions and desires are unruly, but our character subdues these elements into a harmonious whole. View quote
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That side of our existence whose direction is towards the infinite seeks not wealth, but freedom and joy. View quote
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In love all the contradictions of existence merge themselves and are lost. Only in love are unity and duality not at variance. View quote
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Compulsion is not indeed the final appeal to man, but joy is. And joy is everywhere. View quote
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Want of love is a degree of callousness; for love is the perfection of consciousness. View quote
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If our relation with the divine were all a thing of our own making, how should we rely on it as true, and how should it lend us support? Yes, we must know that within us we have that where space and time cease to rule and where the links of evolution are merged in unity. View quote
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Though the West has accepted as its teacher him who boldly proclaimed his oneness with his Father, and who exhorted his followers to be perfect as God, it has never been reconciled to this idea of our unity with the infinite being. View quote
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We at once feel that cruelty to him is cruelty to ourselves, to make him small is stealing from our own humanity... View quote
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Civilisation can never sustain itself upon cannibalism of any form. For that by which alone man is true can only be nourished by love and justice. (Rabindranath Tagore)
In the region of nature, which is the region of diversity, we grow by acquisition; in the spiritual world, which is the region of unity, we grow by losing ourselves, by uniting. View quote
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In its efforts to clasp in its own arms that which is for all, it hurts others and is hurt in its turn, and cries, "Lead me across". But as soon as it is able to say, "All my work is thine," everything remains the same, only it is taken across. View quote
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Of course man is useful to man, because his body is a marvellous machine and his mind an organ of wonderful efficiency. But he is a spirit as well, and this spirit is truly known only by love. View quote
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This "I" of mine toils hard, day and night, for a home which it knows as its own. Alas, there will be no end of its sufferings so long as it is not able to call this home thine. View quote
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In love, at one of its poles you find the personal, and at the other the impersonal. At one you have the positive assertion - Here I am; at the other the equally strong denial - I am not. View quote
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We never can have a true view of man unless we have a love for him. Civilisation must be judged and prized, not by the amount of power it has developed, but by how much it has evolved and given expression to, by its laws and institutions, the love of humanity. View quote
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It exists to show that the bonds of law can only be explained by love; they are like body and soul. Joy is the realisation of the truth of oneness, the oneness of our soul with the world and of the world-soul with the supreme lover. View quote
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I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever. View quote
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The real frienship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darken. View quote
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I have become my own version of an optimist. 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)
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. View quote
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In love, at one of its poles you find the personal, and at the other the impersonal. At one you have the positive assertion - Here I am; at the other the equally strong denial - I am not. Without this ego what is love? And again, with only this ego how can love be possible? Bondage and liberation are not antagonistic in love. For love is most free and at the same time most bound. If God were absolutely free there would be no creation. The infinite being has assumed unto himself the mystery of finitude. And in him who is love the finite and the infinite are made one. View quote
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I am restless. I am athirst for faraway things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance. O Great Beyond, O the keen call of thy flute! I forget, I ever forget, that I have no wings to fly, that I am bound in this spot evermore. View quote
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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. View quote
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