If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

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I have spent a fortune travelling to distant shores and looked at lofty mountains and boundless oceans, and yet I haven’t found time to take a few steps from my house to look at a single dewdrop on a single blade of grass.

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The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

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We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us. ― Rabindranath Tagore

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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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Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

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

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

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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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