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Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

Rabindranath Tagore
Death, Humorous, Flames
"Wrestling Archangels". Book by Bede Clarke, 2001.

That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.

Rabindranath Tagore
Surprise, Perpetual
Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.6, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

The earth paints a portrait of the sun at dawn with sunflowers in bloom. Unhappy with the portrait, she erases it and paints it again and again.

Rabindranath Tagore
Unhappy, Sunflower, Dawn

God is neither manifest nor hidden; He is neither revealed nor unrevealed; there are no words to tell that which He is. He is without form, without quality, without decay.

Rabindranath Tagore
God, Quality, Decay

With begging and scrambling we find very little, but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.

Rabindranath Tagore
Littles, Being True, Begging
Rabindranath Tagore (2015). “Letters to a Friend”, p.82, Routledge

Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent.

Rabindranath Tagore
Being Alone, Water, Depth
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.420, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Our self (Soul) is maya (an illusion) where it is merely individual and finite, where it considers its separateness as absolute; it is satyam (truth) where it recognizes its essence in the universal and infinite, in the Supreme Self, in paramatman (God). This is what Christ means when he says, "Before Abraham was, I am" (i.e. before Abraham was God, who is the same that is in my soul - I am That.)

Rabindranath Tagore
God, Mean, Self

Memory, the priestess, kills the present and offers its heart to the shrine of the dead past.

Rabindranath Tagore
Memories, Heart, Past
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.586, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence.

Rabindranath Tagore
Men, Silence, Crowds
"Stray Birds".

Do not linger to gather flowers to keep them, but walk on, for flowers will keep themselves blooming all your way.

Rabindranath Tagore
Flower, Blooming, Way
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.408, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Those who are near me do not know that you are nearer to me than they are Those who speak to me do not know that my heart is full with your unspoken words Those who crowd in my path do not know that I am walking alone with you Those who love me do not know that their love brings you to my heart

Rabindranath Tagore
Heart, Unspoken Words, Crowds

Age considers; youth ventures.

Rabindranath Tagore
Inspirational, Age, Venture

Life's fulfillment finds constant obstacles in its path; but those are necessary for the sake of its advance. The stream is saved from the sluggishness of its current by the perpetual opposition of the soil through which it must cut its way. The spirit of fight belongs to the genius of life.

Rabindranath Tagore
Fighting, Cutting, Genius
Rabindranath Tagore (2015). “The Religion of Man”, p.87, Ravenio Books

When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere.

Rabindranath Tagore
Past, Self, Lust
Rabindranath Tagore (2006). “Sadhana the Realization of Life”, p.109, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

Where is heaven? you ask me, my child,-the sages tell us it is beyond the limits of birth and death, unswayed by the rhythm of day and night; it is not of the earth. But your poet knows that its eternal hunger is for time and space, and it strives evermore to be born in the fruitful dust. Heaven is fulfilled in your sweet body, my child, in your palpitating heart. The sea is beating its drums in joy, the flowers are a-tiptoe to kiss you. For heaven is born in you, in the arms of the mother- dust.

Rabindranath Tagore
Mother, Sweet, Children
Rabindranath Tagore, “Lover's Gifts XLIV: Where Is Heaven”

You are invited to the festival of this world and your life is blessed.

Rabindranath Tagore
Life, Blessed, World

Man is immortal; therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea; it can only find itself in changing forms

Rabindranath Tagore
Life, Cute, Men
Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.245, Sahitya Akademi

Let my love like sunlight surround you and yet give you illumined freedom.

Rabindranath Tagore
Rainy Day, Giving, Sunlight
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.438, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.

Rabindranath Tagore
God, Running, Children
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.576, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.

Rabindranath Tagore
Life, Kindness, Generosity
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.403, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.

Rabindranath Tagore
Running, Nature, Flower
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.38, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

The heart wants to go on; that is its dharma. For unless it moves, it dies.

Rabindranath Tagore
Moving, Heart, Goes On
Rabindranath Tagore, Fakrul Alam, Radha Chakravarty (2011). “The Essential Tagore”, p.798, Harvard University Press

You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water.

Rabindranath Tagore
Inspirational Life, Greatness, Sea

If you want to know India, study Vivekananda. In him everything is positive and nothing negative.

Rabindranath Tagore
India, Negative, Want

I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my child.

Rabindranath Tagore
Children, My Children
Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.116, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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