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

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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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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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If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door or I’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

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

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

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

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

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