The small wisdom is like water in a glass, clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.
RABINDRANATH TAGOREI am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.
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Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.
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Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain.
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He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
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Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
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God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man’s hands.
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Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.
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The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.
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Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
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I will sit in the pupil of your eyes and that will carry your sight into the heart of the things
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It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.
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Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
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Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.
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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
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