Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.

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

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

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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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The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

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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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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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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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