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

Rabindranath Tagore

Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.
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Believe Creation Mind People Principle Reflection World
Love’s gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.
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Acceptance Gift Love Wait
Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
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Ability Creation Inspirational
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
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 stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.
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Appearance Scare Stars
By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
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Beautiful Flower Herself Yourself
Men can only think. Women have a way of understanding without thinking. Woman was created out of God’s own fancy. Man, He had to hammer into shape.
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Creation God Man Thinking Understand Woman
You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.
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Feeling Myself Smile Wait Yourself
Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones -the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically.
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Music Oneself Poetry
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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Best Dream Friendship Home
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
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
Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them.
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Danger Fear Inspirational Myself Prayer
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
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Children Courage God Man Spiritual
Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain.
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End Explanation Love Mystery

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

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

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