Our nature is obscured by work done by the compulsion of want or fear. The mother reveals herself in the service of her children, so our true freedom is not the freedom from action but freedom in action, which can only be attained in the work of love.

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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but that makes our life in harmony with all existence. ― Rabindranath Tagore

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You cannot cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

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That side of our existence whose direction is towards the infinite that seeks not wealth, but freedom and joy.

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Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

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If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door or I’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

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When we accept any discipline for ourselves, we try to avoid everything except that which is necessary for our purpose; it is this purposefulness, which belongs to the adult mind, that we force upon school children. We say, “Never keep your mind alert.

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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

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