11 Rabindranath Tagore Quotes on Connection

Rabindranath Tagore quotes on connection

33. My heart, the bird of the wilderness, has found its sky in your eyes. ~ 31

54. Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

66. He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open.

104. Music fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of our daily habits.

116. Science urges us to occupy by our mind the immensity of the knowable world; our spiritual teacher enjoins us to comprehend by our soul the infinite spirit which is in the depth of the moving and changing facts of the world; the urging of our artistic nature is to realize the manifestation of personality in the world of appearance, the reality of existence which is in harmony with the real within us. Where this harmony is not deeply felt, there we are aliens and perpetually homesick. For man by nature is an artist; he never receives passively and accurately in his mind a physical representation of things around him.

133. The man whose acquaintance with the world does not lead him deeper than science leads him, will never understand what it is that the man with the spiritual vision finds in these natural phenomena. The water does not merely cleanse his limbs, but it purifies his heart; for it touches his soul. The earth does not merely hold his body, but it gladdens his mind; for its contact is more than physical contact, it is a living presence. When a man does not realise his kinship with the world, he lives in a prison-house whose walls are alien to him When he meets the eternal spirit in all objects, then is he emancipated, for then he discovers the fullest significance of the world into which he is born; then he finds himself in perfect truth, and his harmony with the All is established.

134. The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realisation of yoga, of union.

145. The significance which is in unity is an eternal wonder.

171. We could have no communication whatever with our surroundings if they were absolutely foreign to us. Man is reaping success every day, and that shows there is a rational connection between him and nature, for we never can make anything our own except that which is truly related to us.

174. We live in the world when we love it.

179. Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.