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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade.
by Rabindranath Tagore

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade.
It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
- Rabindranath Tagore

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You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
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Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
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Trees are the earth's endless effort
to speak to the listening heaven.
- Rabindranath Tagore

I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
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Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
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Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
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Facts are many, but the truth is one.
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
with a grip that kills it.
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Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
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Love ... waits to be accepted.
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The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
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He who wants to do good knocks at the gate:
he who loves finds the door open.
- Rabindranath Tagore

If you shut the door to all errors,
truth will be shut out.
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Faith is the bird that feels the light
and sings when the dawn is still dark.
- Rabindranath Tagore

The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
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Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Love's gift cannot be given,
it waits to be accepted.
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Love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us.
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Those who own much have much to fear.
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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time
like dew on the tip of a leaf.
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Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore

The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.
- Rabindranath Tagore

We live in the world when we love it.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore

The water in a vessel is sparkling;
the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words which are clear;
the great truth has great silence.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment.
It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore

I have become my own version of an optimist.
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.
- Rabindranath Tagore

We come nearest to the great
when we are great in humility.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Don't limit a child to your own learning,
for he was born in another time.
- Rabindranath Tagore

The burden of the self is lightened when I laugh at myself.
- Rabindranath Tagore

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life,
your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
- Rabindranath Tagore

I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted and behold, service was joy.
- Rabindranath Tagore

The fact that I exist is a perpetual surprise.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Everything comes to us that belongs to us
if we create the capacity to receive it.
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Do not say, "It is morning,"
and dismiss it with a name of yesterday.
See it for the first time
as a newborn child that has no name.
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He who is too busy doing good
finds no time to be good.
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The highest education is that which
does not merely give us information
but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds
her own face in a perfect mirror.
- Rabindranath Tagore

By plucking her petals,
you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle.
It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Death is not extinguishing the light;
it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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Music fills the infinite between two souls.
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From the solemn gloom of the temple
children run out to sit in the dust,
God watches them play and forgets the priest.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil
is no freedom for the tree.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore

The meaning of our self is not to be found
in its separateness from God and others,
but in the ceaseless realization of yoga, of union.
- Rabindranath Tagore

We try to realize the essential unity of the world
with the conscious soul of man;
we learn to perceive the unity held together
by the one Eternal Spirit,
whose power creates the earth, the sky, and the stars,
and at the same time irradiates our mind.
- Rabindranath Tagore

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu

Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus

The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman

No problem can be solved from the same level
of consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein

The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper

Iron rusts from disuse;
water loses its purity from stagnation...
even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Dare to be naive.
- Buckminster Fuller

The highest possible stage in moral culture
is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
- Charles Darwin

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is more value in a very good painting
that is completed and on display,
than in an excellent painting
that is still in the artist's studio,
or perhaps still in his mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson

Maintain a balance between skepticism and faith.
Maintain a beginner mind. Be open to possibility.
Don't give in to skepticism,
but don't give in to fantasy either.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer,
in my mind I am free.
- Stephen Hawking

You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha

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