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You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

Rabindranath Tagore

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
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Darkness Faith Feeling Light
We cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every step.
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Deep Forever Philosophy
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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Deep Hands Logic Mindset
Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.
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Leaving Season Sing Summer
Oh my only friend, my best beloved, the gates are open in my house – do not pass by like a dream.
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Dream Friendship Home Myself
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
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Life Stars Sun Tears Yourself
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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End Home Spiritual Travel World
Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain.
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End Explanation Love Mystery
On the seashore of endless worlds children meet.
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Children End Sea World
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
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Freedom Love Philosophy Prison
Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
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Philosophy
The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.
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Darkness Greatness Sea Silence Truth Word
Let me light my lamp , says the star, And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness
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Darkness Help Myself Stars
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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Comfortable Generosity Greatness Happiness Life Love Peace Success
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
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Dream Generosity Joy Life Myself Philosophy
I 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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God Myself Right Willing Worship

You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

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