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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.

Rabindranath Tagore

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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Education Existence Life Ourselves
We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.
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Philosophy Reading World Wrong
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
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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Death Light Morning
Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.
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Heart Myself Pain
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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Earth Light Love Man Myself See Sing World
Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain.
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End Explanation Love Mystery
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
Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.
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End Explanation Love Mystery
Love’s gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.
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Acceptance Gift Love Wait
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
Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live.
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Humanity Live Patriot Price Spiritual
Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.
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Dance Perfection
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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Light Love Man Myself See Sunrise World
Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.
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Dream Important Strange Wake Up
Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.
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Myself Silence Sun Thinking
Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward by outward beauty.
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Beautiful Love See
I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.
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Deep Myself Song
Men are cruel, but Man is kind.
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Kind Man
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, In life after life, in age after age, forever.
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Age Life Myself True Love Yourself
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
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Dance Life Light Time Yourself
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
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
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Deep Enough Moments Time
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
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
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Carry Life Myself Nature Perspective Rain
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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Death Joy Smile World Yourself
You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
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Inspirational Sea 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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