Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name. Rabindranath Tagore More Quotes by Rabindranath Tagore More Quotes From Rabindranath Tagore God finds himself by creating. Rabindranath Tagore creating god Joy is there everywhere; it is superfluous, unnecessary; nay, it very often contradicts the most peremptory behests of necessity. It exists to show that the bonds of law can only be explained by love; they are like body and soul. Joy is the realisation of the truth of oneness, the oneness of our soul with the world and of the world-soul with the supreme lover. Rabindranath Tagore oneness god law The greed for fruit misses the flower. Rabindranath Tagore greed flower missing The birth and death of leaves is part of that greater cycle that moves among the stars. Rabindranath Tagore stars tree moving We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do. Rabindranath Tagore vegetarian-diet food thinking The force of arms only reveals man s weakness. Rabindranath Tagore weakness power men Asks the Possible of the Impossible, "Where is your dwelling-place?" "In the dreams of the Impotent," comes the answer. Rabindranath Tagore dwelling-place answers dream The realization of our soul has its moral and its spiritual side. The moral side represents training of unselfishness, control of desire; the spiritual side represents sympathy and love. They should be taken together and never separated. The cultivation of the merely moral side of our nature leads us to the dark region of narrowness and hardness of heart, to the intolerant arrogance of goodness; and the cultivation of the merely spiritual side of our nature leads us to a still darker region of revelry in intemperance of imagination. Rabindranath Tagore taken spiritual heart Everything has sprung from immortal life and is vibrating with life, for life is immense! Rabindranath Tagore immortal-life god life-is The question and the cry 'Oh, where?' melt into tears of a thousand streams and deluge the world with the flood of the assurance 'I am!' Rabindranath Tagore cry tears world I will sit in the pupil of your eyes and that will carry your sight into the heart of the things Rabindranath Tagore eye sight heart The hours trip rapidly away, hiding their dreams in their skirts. Rabindranath Tagore aging skirts dream Man's freedom is never in being saved from troubles, but it is the freedom to take trouble for his own good, to make the trouble an element in his joy. Rabindranath Tagore elements encouragement joy If it is necessary to die in order to live like men, what harm in dying? Rabindranath Tagore men order death Dreams can never be made captive. Rabindranath Tagore captives made dream The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail. Rabindranath Tagore sparrows sorry tails Bravery ceases to be bravery at a certain point, and becomes mere foolhardiness. Rabindranath Tagore mere certain bravery I sit at my window gazing The world passes by, nods to me And is gone. Rabindranath Tagore gazing gone world The meaning of the living words that come out of the experiences of great hearts can never be exhausted by any one system of logical interpretation. They have to be endlessly explained by the commentaries of individual lives, and they gain an added mystery in each new revelation. Rabindranath Tagore gains mystery heart God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land. Rabindranath Tagore space nature land
