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that which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time.

that which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time.

Rabindranath Tagore
Moments, Shallow, Spread
Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “The Home and the World”, p.190, Rabindranath Tagore

I have observed, on board a steamer, how men and women easily give way to their instinct for flirtation, because water has the power of washing away our sense of responsibility, and those who on land resemble the oak in their firmness behave like floating seaweed when on the sea.

Rabindranath Tagore
Responsibility, Men, Sea
Rabindranath Tagore (2015). “Letters to a Friend”, p.175, Routledge

The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.

Rabindranath Tagore
Sky, Tree, Soil
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.441, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Today I feel that I shall win through. I have come to the gateway of the simple; I am now content to see things as they are. I have gained freedom myself; I shall allow freedom to others. In my work will be my salvation.

Rabindranath Tagore
Winning, Simple, Today
Rabindranath Tagore (2014). “The Home and The World: Fiction, Autobiographical novel”, p.112, editionNEXT.com

Leave out my name from the gift if it be a burden, but keep my song.

Rabindranath Tagore
Song, Names, Burden
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.586, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

The danger inherent in all force grows stronger when it is likely to gain success, for then it becomes temptation.

Rabindranath Tagore
Temptation, Stronger, Gains
Rabindranath Tagore, Krishna Dutta, Andrew Robinson (1997). “Selected Letters of Rabindranath Tagore”, p.216, Cambridge University Press

False hope is clung to with all one's might and main, till a day comes when it has sucked the heart dry and it forcibly breaks through its bonds and departs. After that comes the misery of awakening, and then once again the longing to get back into the maze of the same mistakes.

Rabindranath Tagore
Mistake, Heart, Break Through
Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “Stories from Tagore”, p.81, Rabindranath Tagore

The tyrant claims freedom to kill freedom, and yet keep it for himself.

Rabindranath Tagore
Freedom, Tyrants, Liberty
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.442, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.

Rabindranath Tagore
Delight, Deliverance, Embrace
Rabindranath Tagore (2011). “The Heart of God: Prayers of Rabindranath Tagore”, p.23, Tuttle Publishing

My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.

Rabindranath Tagore
Prayer, Secret, Debt
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.20, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. There are many crimes which are the creation of man himself, the wrongfulness of which is put down to their divergence from habit, custom, or tradition. But cruelty is not of these. It is a fundamental sin, and admits of no argument or nice distinctions. If only we do not allow our heart to grow callous, its protest against cruelty is always clearly heard; and yet we go on perpetrating cruelties easily, merrily, all of us - in fact, anyone who does not join in is dubbed a crank.

Rabindranath Tagore
Karma, Nice, Heart
"The Complete Works of Rabindranath Tagore".

Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure.

Rabindranath Tagore
Dedication, Leisure, Faces
Rabindranath Tagore, General Press (2014). “Gitanjali”, p.5, GENERAL PRESS

For the current of our spiritual life creeds, rituals and channels that may thwart or help, according to their fixity or openness. When a symbol or spiritual idea becomes rigidly elaborate in its construction, it supplants the idea which it should support.

Rabindranath Tagore
Spiritual, Ideas, Support
Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.51, Sahitya Akademi

The birds looked upon me as nothing but a man, quite a trifling creature without wings-and they would have nothing to do with me. Were it not so I would build a small cabin for myself among their crowd of nests and pass my days counting the sea waves.

Rabindranath Tagore
Men, Sea, Wings
Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Rabindranath Tagore, Sigrid Undset, William Butler Yeats (1971). “Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Rabindranath Tagore, Sigrid Undset [and] William Butler Yeats”

Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.

Rabindranath Tagore
Fog, Dawn, Tongue
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Plays, stories”, p.11, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Whatever we understand and enjoy in human products instantly becomes ours, wherever they might have their origin... Let me feel with unalloyed gladness that all the great glories of man are mine.

Rabindranath Tagore
Men, Might, Glory
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Essays, lectures, addresses”, p.374, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Whatever character our theology may ascribe to him, in reality God is the infinite ideal of Man, towards whom men move in their collective growth, with whom they seek their union of love as individuals, in whom they find their ideal of father, friend and beloved.

Rabindranath Tagore
God, Father, Moving
Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.154, Sahitya Akademi

The child ever dwells in the mystery of ageless time,unobscured by the dust of history.

Rabindranath Tagore
Children, Dust, Mystery
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.587, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

If thou speakest not I will fill my heart with thy silence and endure it. I will keep still and wait like the night with starry vigil and its head bent low with patience. The morning will surely come, the darkness will vanish, and thy voice pour down in golden streams breaking through the sky. Then thy words will take wing in songs from every one of my birds' nests, and thy melodies will break forth in flowers in all my forest groves.

Rabindranath Tagore
Song, Morning, Flower
Rabindranath Tagore (2013). “Gitanjali - Song Offerings”, p.19, Read Books Ltd

Obstinate are the trammels, but my heart aches when I try to break them. Freedom is all I want, but to hope for it I feel ashamed. I am certain that priceless wealth is in thee, and that thou art my best friend, but I have not the heart to sweep away the tinsel that fills my room. The shroud that covers me is a shroud of dust and death; I hate it, yet hug it in love. My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.

Rabindranath Tagore
Art, Prayer, Fear
Rabindranath Tagore (2013). “Gitanjali - Song Offerings”, p.28, Read Books Ltd

The song I came to sing remains unsung to this day. I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument. The time has not come true, the words have not been rightly set; only there is the agony of wishing in my heart . . .

Rabindranath Tagore
Song, Heart, Agony
Rabindranath Tagore, William Radice (2011). “Gitanjali: Song Offerings”, p.176, Penguin Books India

Children who are decked with prince's robes and who have jeweled chains round their necks lose all pleasure in play; their dress hampers them at every step. In fear that it may be frayed, or stained with dust, they keep themselves from the world and are afraid ever to move. Mother, it is no gain, thy bondage of finery, if it keep one shut off from the healthful dust of the earth, if it rob one of the right of entrance to the great fair of common human life.

Rabindranath Tagore
Mother, Children, Moving
Rabindranath Tagore, “Gitanjali”

We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do.

Rabindranath Tagore
Food, Thinking, Vegetarian Diet
Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

He alone may chastise who loves.

Rabindranath Tagore
May

In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth.

Rabindranath Tagore
Lakes, Mountain, Depth
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.439, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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