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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That side of our existence whose direction is towards the infinite that seeks not wealth, but freedom and 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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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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Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.

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

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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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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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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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