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What does it mean?
Bigotry holds onto truth so tightly it destroys it.
In plain terms
Being too rigid about truth kills truth.
What can you take from it?
Rigid belief destroys truth.

Where it applies

  • religious debate
  • political discourse
  • open dialogue

Putting it to work

  • practicing open-mindedness
  • challenging dogma

Questions to consider

  • How do you hold your beliefs?
  • What stops you from listening?

Another view

It simplifies the roots of prejudice.

More from Rabindranath Tagore

  1. The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.

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  2. God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land.

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  3. My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted. ~ 28

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