6 Rabindranath Tagore Quotes on Identity

Rabindranath Tagore quotes on identity

20. That side of our existence whose direction is towards the infinite seeks not wealth, but freedom and joy. There the reign of necessity ceases, and there our function is not to get but to be. To be what? To be one with Brahma. For the region of the infinite is the region of unity. Therefore the Upanishads say: If man apprehends God he becomes true. Here it is becoming, it is not having more. Words do no gather bulk when you know their meaning; they become true by being one with the idea.

40. A dewdrop is a perfect integrity that has no filial memory of its parentage.

61. God finds himself by creating.

78. In love, at one of its poles you find the personal, at the other the impersonal. At one you have the positive assertion- Here I am; at the other the equally strong denial- I am not. Without this ego what is love? And again, with only this ego how can love be possible?

102. Man's cry is to reach his fullest expression.

149. The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and he has to wonder through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.