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To understand anything is to find in it something which is our own, and it is the discovery of ourselves outside us which makes us glad. This relation of understanding is partial, but the relation of love is complete. In love the sense of difference is obliterated and the human soul fulfills its purpose in perfection, transcending the limits of itself and reaching across the threshold of the infinite. Therefore love is the highest bliss that man can attain to, for through it alone he truly knows that he is more than himself, and that he is at one with the All.

Rabindranath Tagore#162

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About this quote

What does it mean?
Love completes understanding by merging souls and transcending the self to reach the infinite.
In plain terms
Love fully connects us and removes separation.
What can you take from it?
Seek connection through love.

Where it applies

  • deep relationships
  • spiritual experience
  • personal growth

Putting it to work

  • practice empathy
  • seek unity
  • transcend ego

Questions to consider

  • How does love change how you know others?
  • Is unity possible through love?

Another view

Love can be incomplete or painful not always blissful.

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  2. Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

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  3. Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.

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