Rabindranath Tagore Quotes about Past

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The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.

The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.

Rabindranath Tagore

Teaching, Past, Doors

The past is always with us, for nothing that once was time can ever depart.

Rabindranath Tagore

Past

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”

I've travelled all around the world to see the rivers and the mountains, and I've spent a lot of money. I have gone to great lengths, I have seen everything, but I forgot to see just outside my house a dewdrop on a little blade of grass, a dewdrop which reflects in its convexity the whole universe around you.

Rabindranath Tagore

Past, Rivers, House

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

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.