“The light of the stars travels millions of miles to reach the earth, but it cannot reach our hearts — so many millions of miles further off are we!”

—  Rabindranath Tagore

Glimpses of Bengal http://www.spiritualbee.com/tagore-book-of-letters/ (1921)

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