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“According to the Upanishads, the complete aspect of Truth is in the reconciliation on the finite and the infinite, of everchanging things and the eternal spirit of perfection. When in our life and work the harmony between these two is broken, then either our life is thinned into a shadow, or it becomes gross with accumulations.”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

"Talks in China",1924. Reprinted in Rabindranath Tagore and Mohit K. Ray, Essays (2007, p. 735).

“Do not say, "It is morning," and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a new-born child that has no name.”

Rabindranath Tagore Stray Birds

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Stray Birds (1916)

“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 (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

28 <br class="br"> Gitanjali http://www.spiritualbee.com/gitanjali-poems-of-tagore/ (1912)

“The fountain of death makes the still water of life play.”

Rabindranath Tagore Stray Birds

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Stray Birds (1916)

“My heart, the bird of the wilderness, has found its sky in your eyes.”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

31 <br class="br"> The Gardener http://www.spiritualbee.com/love-poems-by-tagore/ (1915)

“The smile that flickers on baby's lips when he sleeps — does anybody know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the dream of a dew-washed morning.”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

61 <br class="br"> Gitanjali http://www.spiritualbee.com/gitanjali-poems-of-tagore/ (1912)

“Let him only see the thorns who has eyes to see the rose.”

Rabindranath Tagore Stray Birds

Source: Stray Birds

“If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.”

Rabindranath Tagore Stray Birds

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Stray Birds (1916)

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

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

Source: The Home and the World

“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 (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

Source: The Home and the World

“The echo mocks her origin to prove she is the original.”

Rabindranath Tagore Stray Birds

Source: Stray Birds

“I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

Source: The Home and the World

“Alas, why are my nights all thus lost? Ah, why do I ever miss his
sight whose breath touches my sleep?”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

Source: Gitanjali: Song Offerings

“And because I love this life
I know I shall love death as well.
The child cries out when
From the right breast the mother
Takes it away, in the very next moment
To Find in the left one
Its consolation.”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

“These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

“Some day I shall sing to thee in the sunrise of some other world, I have seen thee before in the light of the earth, in the love of man.”

Rabindranath Tagore Stray Birds

Source: Stray Birds

“Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones -- the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically.”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

Source: Collected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore

“He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.”

Rabindranath Tagore Stray Birds

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Stray Birds (1916)

“for we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

Source: The Home and the World

“Oh my only friend, my best beloved, the gates are open in my
house—do not pass by like a dream.”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

Source: Gitanjali: Song Offerings