Quote #54
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
More from Rabindranath Tagore
- Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
- Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of humanity.
- Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a new-born child that has no name.
- Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
- Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
- Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
- Death belongs to life as birth does. The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down.
- Facts are many, but the truth is one.