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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.

Rabindranath Tagore

Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones -the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically.
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Music Oneself Poetry
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
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
Music fills the infinite between two souls
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Music Soul
The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.
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Earth Generosity Reward
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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Freedom Home Love Power Prison World Yourself
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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Darkness Greatness Mystery Philosophy Sea Wisdom
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
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
Love’s gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.
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Acceptance Gift Love Wait
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
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
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 does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
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Freedom Love
Never be afraid of the moments–thus sings the voice of the everlasting.
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Fear Moments Sing Voice

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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