The real frienship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darken. Rabindranath Tagore More Quotes by Rabindranath Tagore More Quotes From Rabindranath Tagore The past is always with us, for nothing that once was time can ever depart. Rabindranath Tagore past I believe in a spiritual world - not as anything separate from this world - but as its innermost truth. With the breath we draw we must always feel this truth, that we are living in God. Rabindranath Tagore spiritual believe world Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror. Rabindranath Tagore smile beauty happiness If thou speakest not I will fill my heart with thy silence and endure it. I will keep still and wait like the night with starry vigil and its head bent low with patience. The morning will surely come, the darkness will vanish, and thy voice pour down in golden streams breaking through the sky. Then thy words will take wing in songs from every one of my birds' nests, and thy melodies will break forth in flowers in all my forest groves. Rabindranath Tagore flower song morning The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth; which claims all its sacrifice, yet makes this sacrifice its own recompense. This is man's dharma, man's religion, and man's self is the vessel. Rabindranath Tagore sacrifice self men A butterfly flitting from flower to flower ever remains mine, I lose the one that is netted by me. Rabindranath Tagore butterfly nature flower April, like a child, Rabindranath Tagore nature flower children True deliverance of man is the deliverance from Avidya i.e. ignorance. It is not in destroying anything that is positive and real, for that cannot be possible, but that which is negative, which obstructs our vision of truth. Rabindranath Tagore ignorance real god For man is by nature an artist. Rabindranath Tagore nature artist men I thought that my voyage had come to its end at the last limit of my power, that the path before me was closed, that provisions were exhausted, and the time come to take shelter in a silent obscurity, but I find that thy will knows no end in me, and when old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart, and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders. Rabindranath Tagore track heart country The world has kissed my Soul with its pain, asking for its return in Songs. Rabindranath Tagore pain soul song Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict. Rabindranath Tagore unity conflict love The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite. Rabindranath Tagore ladders limits tragedy Life's fulfillment finds constant obstacles in its path; but those are necessary for the sake of its advance. The stream is saved from the sluggishness of its current by the perpetual opposition of the soil through which it must cut its way. The spirit of fight belongs to the genius of life. Rabindranath Tagore cutting genius fighting The meaning of this is, that whomsoever we love, in him we find our own soul in the highest sense. The final truth of our existence lies in this. God, the Supreme Soul, is in me, as well as in my son, and my joy in my son is the realisation of this truth. Rabindranath Tagore god lying son Never be afraid of the moments--thus sings the voice of the everlasting. Rabindranath Tagore everlasting voice moments Love remains a secret even when spoken, for only a true lover truly knows that he is loved. Rabindranath Tagore remains secret love God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands. Rabindranath Tagore flower god men Where roads are made I lose my way.In the wide water, in the blue sky there is no line of a track.The pathway is hidden by the birds' wings, by the star-fires, by the flowers of the wayfaring seasons.And I ask my heart if its blood carries the wisdom of the unseen way. Rabindranath Tagore stars flower heart Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave. The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him. Rabindranath Tagore gratitude butterfly flower
