When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us To pass away.
Rabindranath TagoreThe pious sectarian is proud because he is confident of his right of possession in God. The man of devotion is meek because he is conscious of God's right of love over his life and soul.
Rabindranath TagoreNo civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.
Rabindranath TagoreAccording to the true Indian view, our consciousness of the world, merely as the sum total of things that exist, and as governed by laws, is imperfect. But it is perfect when our consciousness realizes all things as spiritually one with it, and therefore capable of giving us joy. For us the highest purpose of this world is not merely living in it, knowing it and making use of it, but realizing our own selves in it through expansion of sympathy; not alienating ourselves from it and dominating it, but comprehending and uniting it with ourselves in perfect union.
Rabindranath Tagore