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Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it.

Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it.

Rabindranath Tagore
Pain, Heart, Grieving
Rabindranath Tagore (2011). “The Heart of God: Prayers of Rabindranath Tagore”, p.47, Tuttle Publishing

Things in which we do not take joy are either a burden upon our minds to be got rid of at any cost; or they are useful, and therefore in temporary and partial relation to us, becoming burdensome when their utility is lost; or they are like wandering vagabonds, loitering for a moment on the outskirts of our recognition, and then passing on. A thing is only completely our own when it is a thing of joy to us.

Rabindranath Tagore
Passing On, Joy, Mind
Rabindranath Tagore (2017). “Sadhana: The Realization of Life”, p.104, BookRix

Do not blame the food because you have no appetite.

Rabindranath Tagore
Blame, Appetite

When I go from hence, let this be my parting word, that what I have seen is unsurpassable. I have tasted of the hidden honey of this lotus that expands on the ocean of light, and thus I am blessed—let this be my parting word. In this playhouse of infinite forms I have had my play and here have I caught sight of him who is formless. My whole body and my limbs have thrilled with his touch who is beyond touch; and if the end comes here, let it come—let this be my parting word.

Rabindranath Tagore
Ocean, Blessed, Light
Rabindranath Tagore (2014). “Gitanjali: Collection of Tagore Poems”, p.84, editionNEXT.com

The flower fades and dies; but he who wears the flower has not to mourn for it for ever.

Rabindranath Tagore
Flower, Funeral, Mourn
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.94, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.

Rabindranath Tagore
Love, Relationship, Wisdom
Rabindranath Tagore, “Stray Birds 81 - 90”

The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.

Rabindranath Tagore
Desire, Fundamentals, Life Is
Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.138, Sahitya Akademi

When the heart is hard and parched up, come upon me with a shower of mercy. When grace is lost from life, come with a burst of song. When tumultuous work raises its din on all sides shutting me out from beyond, come to me, my lord of silence, with thy peace and rest. When my beggarly heart sits crouched, shut up in a corner, break open the door, my king, and come with the ceremony of a king. When desire blinds the mind with delusion and dust, O thou holy one, thou wakeful, come with thy light and thy thunder.

Rabindranath Tagore
Song, Kings, Heart
Rabindranath Tagore (2005). “கீதாஞ்சலி: Kītāñcali”, p.83, Sura Books

Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but a world whose guiding spirit is personal love.

Rabindranath Tagore
Children, School, People
Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.78, Sahitya Akademi

In love at one of its poles you find the personal, and at the other the impersonal. At one you have the positive assertion — Here I am; at the other the equally strong denial — I am not. Without this ego what is love? And again, with only this ego how can love be possible? Bondage and liberation are not antagonistic in love. For love is most free and at the same time most bound. If God were absolutely free there would be no creation. The infinite being has assumed unto himself the mystery of finitude. And in him who is love the finite and the infinite are made one.

Rabindranath Tagore
Life, Strong, Love Is
"The Complete Works of Rabindranath Tagore".

Somewhere in the arrangement of this world there seems to be a great concern about giving us delight, which shows that, in the universe, over and above the meaning of matter and forces, there is a message conveyed through the magic touch of personality. ... Is it merely because the rose is round and pink that it gives me more satisfaction than the gold which could buy me the necessities of life, or any number of slaves. ... Somehow we feel that through a rose the language of love reached our hearts.

Rabindranath Tagore
Life, Heart, Science
Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.126, Sahitya Akademi

Love remains a secret even when spoken, for only a true lover truly knows that he is loved.

Rabindranath Tagore
Love, Secret, Remains

I thought that my voyage had come to its end at the last limit of my power, that the path before me was closed, that provisions were exhausted, and the time come to take shelter in a silent obscurity, but I find that thy will knows no end in me, and when old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart, and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.

Rabindranath Tagore
Country, Heart, Track
Rabindranath Tagore (2005). “கீதாஞ்சலி: Kītāñcali”, p.79, Sura Books

Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one among various subjects in the school syllabus. It is the truth of our complete being, the consciousness of our personal relationship with the infinite.

Rabindranath Tagore
School, Religion, Syllabus
Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.81, Sahitya Akademi

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

Rabindranath Tagore
Inspirational, Freedom, Gains
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.447, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

When we rejoice in our fullness, then we can part with our fruits with joy.

Rabindranath Tagore
Maturity, Joy, Fruit
Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “失群的鳥”

And it shall be my endeavour to reveal thee in my actions, knowing it is thy power gives me strength to act.

Rabindranath Tagore
Knowing, Giving, Action
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.12, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

Rabindranath Tagore
Love, Inspiration, Funny Relationship
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.455, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

The meaning of this is, that whomsoever we love, in him we find our own soul in the highest sense. The final truth of our existence lies in this. God, the Supreme Soul, is in me, as well as in my son, and my joy in my son is the realisation of this truth.

Rabindranath Tagore
God, Lying, Son

Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.

Rabindranath Tagore
Funeral, Fame, Immortality
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.428, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Yet what each one does is by no means of little moment. The grass has to put forth all its energy to draw sustenance from the uttermost tips of its rootlets simply to grow where it is as grass; it does not vainly strive to become a banyan tree; and so the earth gains a lovely carpet of green.

Rabindranath Tagore
Inspirational, Life, Mean
Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.62, Sahitya Akademi

It is the same life that emerges in joy through the dust of the earth into numberless waves of flower.

Rabindranath Tagore
Mother, Flower, Dust

The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realization of yoga, of union; not on the side of the canvas where it is blank, but on the side where the picture is being painted.

Rabindranath Tagore
Success, Yoga, Self
Rabindranath Tagore, Fakrul Alam, Radha Chakravarty (2011). “The Essential Tagore”, p.199, Harvard University Press

The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth

Rabindranath Tagore
Voice, Tree, Dumb
Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.7, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

Thy infinite gifts come to me only on these very small hands of mine. Ages pass, and still thou pourest, and still there is room to fill.

Rabindranath Tagore
Peace, Small Hands, Age
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.11, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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