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

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

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

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

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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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