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

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

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

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Love is an endless mystery because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.

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

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

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

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