I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
RABINDRANATH TAGOREYou can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
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Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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Let me light my lamp , says the star, And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness
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Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
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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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Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward by outward beauty.
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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.
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It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.
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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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If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door- or i’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
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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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Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance
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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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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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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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