The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact. Rabindranath Tagore More Quotes by Rabindranath Tagore More Quotes From Rabindranath Tagore In love at one of its poles you find the personal, and at the other the impersonal. At one you have the positive assertion — Here I am; at the other the equally strong denial — I am not. Without this ego what is love? And again, with only this ego how can love be possible? Rabindranath Tagore stronglove-islife Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but a world whose guiding spirit is personal love. Rabindranath Tagore childrenpeopleschool Facts are many, but the truth is one. Rabindranath Tagore truthinspirationalreality What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real. Rabindranath Tagore creativityrealart Those who think to reach God by running away from the world, when and where do they expect to meet him? We are reaching him here in this very spot, now at this very moment. Rabindranath Tagore runningworldthinking Where is heaven? you ask me, my child,-the sages tell us it is beyond the limits of birth and death, unswayed by the rhythm of day and night; it is not of the earth. But your poet knows that its eternal hunger is for time and space, and it strives evermore to be born in the fruitful dust. Heaven is fulfilled in your sweet body, my child, in your palpitating heart. The sea is beating its drums in joy, the flowers are a-tiptoe to kiss you. For heaven is born in you, in the arms of the mother- dust. Rabindranath Tagore mothersweetchildren Man is immortal; therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea; it can only find itself in changing forms Rabindranath Tagore cutemenlife The more one lives alone on the river or in the open country, the clearer it becomes that nothing is more beautiful or great than to perform the ordinary duties of one's daily life simply and naturally. Rabindranath Tagore beautifulinspirationallife And joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass; in the blue serenity of the sky. Rabindranath Tagore skybluejoy Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence. Rabindranath Tagore crowdssilencemen Our responsibility is no longer to acquire, but to BE. Rabindranath Tagore acquireresponsibility We try to realize the essential unity of the world with the conscious soul of man; we learn to perceive the unity held together by the one Eternal Spirit, whose power creates the earth, the sky, and the stars, and at the same time irradiates our mind. Rabindranath Tagore starsskymen The cure for all the illness of life is stored in the inner depth of life itself, the access to which becomes possible when we are alone. This solitude is a world in itself, full of wonders and resources unthought of. It is absurdly near; yet so unapproachably distant. Rabindranath Tagore being-alonesolitudedepth Inspiration follows aspiration. Rabindranath Tagore aspirationinspiration 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 there Rabindranath Tagore inspirationviewslaw If religion, instead of being the manifestation of a spiritual ideal, gives prominence to scriptures and external rites, then does it disturb the peace more than anything else. Rabindranath Tagore spiritualgivingreligion The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist. Rabindranath Tagore fundamentalslife-isdesire Music fills the infinite between two souls. Rabindranath Tagore musicwisdomtwo If you want to know India, study Vivekananda. In him everything is positive and nothing negative. Rabindranath Tagore indiawantnegative When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us To pass away. Rabindranath Tagore life-and-lovedeathpast
