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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I slept and dreamt that life was a joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was a joy.

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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 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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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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By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

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

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

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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

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