Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them. Rabindranath Tagore More Quotes by Rabindranath Tagore More Quotes From Rabindranath Tagore Only Thee That I want thee, only thee---let my heart repeat without end. All desires that distract me, day and night, are false and empty to the core. As the night keeps hidden in its gloom the petition for light, even thus in the depth of my unconsciousness rings the cry ---`I want thee, only thee'. As the storm still seeks its end in peace when it strikes against peace with all its might, even thus my rebellion strikes against thy love and still its cry is ---`I want thee, only thee'. Rabindranath Tagore lightheartnight By all means they try to hold me secure who love me in this world. But it is otherwise with thy love which is greater than theirs, and thout keepst me free. Lest I forgot them they never venture to leave me alone. But day passes by after day and thou art not seen. If I call not thee in my prayers, if I keep not thee in my heart, thy love for me still waits for my love. Rabindranath Tagore prayermeanart Say of him what you please, but I know my child's failings. I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my little child. How should you know how dear he can be when you try to weigh his merits against his faults? When I must punish him he becomes all the more a part of my being. When I cause his tears to come my heart weeps with him. I alone have a right to blame and punish, for he only may chastise who loves. Rabindranath Tagore hearttryingchildren that which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time. Rabindranath Tagore shallowspreadmoments Repentance is a gift of God's grace. Rabindranath Tagore gods-gracerepentancegrace The delights of sight and hearing and touch will bear thy delight. Rabindranath Tagore delighthearingsight The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself. Rabindranath Tagore laughterlightinspirational There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where the idea and the form, the within and the without, are united; where infinite becomes finite, yet not losing its infinity. If this meeting is dissolved, then things become unreal. Rabindranath Tagore movementinfinityideas I never give answers. I lead on from one question to another. That is my leadership. Rabindranath Tagore answersgiving The significance which is in unity is an eternal wonder. Rabindranath Tagore significanceunitywonder 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 selfgodmean The spirit of rejection finds its support in the consciousness of separateness; the spirit of acceptance finds its base in the consciousness of unity. Rabindranath Tagore rejectionsupportacceptance According to the true Indian view, our consciousness of the world, merely as the sum total of things that exist, and as governed by laws, is imperfect. But it is perfect when our consciousness realizes all things as spiritually one with it, and therefore capable of giving us joy. For us the highest purpose of this world is not merely living in it, knowing it and making use of it, but realizing our own selves in it through expansion of sympathy; not alienating ourselves from it and dominating it, but comprehending and uniting it with ourselves in perfect union. Rabindranath Tagore selfviewslaw Oh, grant me my prayer, that I may never lose the touch of the one in the play of the many. Rabindranath Tagore prayerplaymay This principle of opposites is at the very root of Creation, which is divided between the rule of the King and the Queen; Night and Day; the One and the Varied; the Eternal and the Evolving. Rabindranath Tagore queenskingsnight The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual. Rabindranath Tagore journeyspirituallaw Whenever our life is stirred by truth, it expresses energy and comes to be filled, as it were, with a creative ardor. This consciousness of the creative urge is evidence of the force of truth on our mind. Rabindranath Tagore creativechangeinspirational It means that God's Creation has not its source in any necessity; it comes from his fullness of joy; it is his love that creates, therefore in Creation is his own revealment. Rabindranath Tagore godjoymean To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps. Rabindranath Tagore speedguestssteps Whatever character our theology may ascribe to him, in reality God is the infinite ideal of Man, towards whom men move in their collective growth, with whom they seek their union of love as individuals, in whom they find their ideal of father, friend and beloved. Rabindranath Tagore godfathermoving
