More from Rabindranath Tagore

  1. Obstacles are necessary companions to expression, and we know that the positive element in language is not in its obstructiveness. Exclusiv…
  2. Our nature is obscured by work done by the compulsion of want or fear. The mother reveals herself in the service of her children, so our tr…
  3. Objects of knowledge maintain an infinite distance from us who are the knowers. For knowledge is not union. Therefore the further world of …
  4. Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.
  5. Night's darkness is the bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.
  6. Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one among various subjects in the school syll…
  7. Never be afraid of the moments- thus sings the voice of the ever-lasting.
  8. 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 atti…

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