Power said to the world, you are mine. The world kept it prisoner on her throne. Love said to the world, I am thine. The world gave it the freedom of her house.
RABINDRANATH TAGOREFaith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
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We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.
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You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.
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Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
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Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain.
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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.
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when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.
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Never be afraid of the moments-thus sings the voice of the everlasting.
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Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.
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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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Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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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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You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
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Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.
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I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.
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Some day I shall sing to thee in the sunrise of some other world, I have seen thee before in the light of the earth, in the love of man.
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