Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.
RABINDRANATH TAGOREThe 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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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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Love’s gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.
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Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones -the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically.
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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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Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
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Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them.
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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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Never be afraid of the moments-thus sings the voice of the everlasting.
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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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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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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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Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
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Men are cruel, but Man is kind.
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Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
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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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